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In disordered elastic systems, driven by displacing a parabolic confining potential adiabatically slowly, all advance of the system is in bursts, termed avalanches. Avalanches have a finite extension in time, which is much smaller than the…

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Living systems balance energetic efficiency with the capacity for path-dependent effects. We introduce Tangential Action Spaces (TAS), a geometric framework that models embodied agents as hierarchies of manifolds linked by projections from…

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The time evolution of random variables with L\'evy statistics has the ability to develop jumps, displaying very different behaviors from continuously fluctuating cases. Such patterns appear in an ever broadening range of examples including…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-02-25 Kamil Kaleta , József Lőrinczi

The city is a complex system that evolves through its inherent social and economic interactions. Mediating the movements of people and resources, urban street networks offer a spatial footprint of these activities; consequently their…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-04-19 Minjin Lee , Hugo Barbosa , Hyejin Youn , Petter Holme , Gourab Ghoshal

With the wide adoption of the multi-community setting in many popular social media platforms, the increasing user engagements across multiple online communities warrant research attention. In this paper, we introduce a novel analogy between…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Tianran Hu , Jiebo Luo , Wei Liu

Rapid advances in modern communication technology are enabling the accumulation of large-scale, high-resolution observational data of spatiotemporal movements of humans. Classification and prediction of human mobility based on the analysis…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-03-16 Juyong Park , Deok-Sun Lee , Marta C. Gonzalez

A central task in the analysis of human movement behavior is to determine systematic patterns and differences across experimental conditions, participants and repetitions. This is possible because human movement is highly regular, being…

Applications · Statistics 2023-01-23 Lars Lau Raket , Britta Grimme , Gregor Schöner , Christian Igel , Bo Markussen

Characterizing the movement patterns of animals is crucial to improve our understanding of their behavior and thus develop adequate conservation strategies. Such investigations, which could not have been implemented in practice only a few…

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Vision-Language-Action models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in predicting agent movements within virtual environments and real-world scenarios based on visual observations and textual instructions. Although recent research has…

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Inspired by Christopher Alexanders conception of the world - space is not lifeless or neutral but a living structure involving far more small things than large ones a topological representation has been previously developed to characterize…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-09-04 Bin Jiang , Zheng Ren

Social activities display bursty behavior characterized by heavy-tailed inter-event time distributions. We examine the bursty behavior of airplanes' arrivals in hub airports. The analysis indicates that the air transportation system…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-12-16 Hidetaka Ito , Katsuhiro Nishinari

Human mobility is an important characteristic of human behavior, but since tracking personalized position to high temporal and spatial resolution is difficult, most studies on human mobility patterns rely largely on mathematical models.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-07-09 Chen Zhao , An Zeng , Chi Ho Yeung

Human mobility describes physical patterns of movement of people within a spatial system. Many of these patterns, including daily commuting, are cyclic and quantifiable. These patterns capture physical phenomena tied to processes studied in…

Applications · Statistics 2023-01-10 Michael J. Kane , Owais Gilani , Simon Urbanek

Generic short-range interacting quantum systems with a conserved quantity exhibit universal diffusive transport at late times. We employ non-equilibrium quantum field theory and semi-classical phase-space simulations to show how this…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-12-15 Alexander Schuckert , Izabella Lovas , Michael Knap

With current technology, a number of entities have access to user mobility traces at different levels of spatio-temporal granularity. At the same time, users frequently reveal their location through different means, including geo-tagged…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Apostolos Pyrgelis , Nicolas Kourtellis , Ilias Leontiadis , Joan Serrà , Claudio Soriente

We investigate active particles that exhibit long-range interactions only restricted by a field of view, which is characterized by an angle $\beta$. We show that constraining attractive interactions to a field of view leads to the emergence…

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Recent studies of animal social networks have significantly increased our understanding of animal behavior, social interactions, and many important ecological and epidemiological processes. However, most of the studies are at low temporal…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2017-02-08 Shi Chen , Amiyaal Ilany , Brad J. White , Michael W. Sanderson , Cristina Lanzas

The movement of organisms and cells can be governed by occasional long distance runs, according to an approximate L\'evy walk. For T cells migrating through chronically-infected brain tissue, runs are further interrupted by long pauses, and…

Biological Physics · Physics 2020-03-06 Gissell Estrada-Rodriguez , Heiko Gimperlein , Kevin J. Painter , Jakub Stocek

Evidences are presented concerning tantalizing regularities in cities' population-flows in what regards to space and time correlations. The former exhibit a distance-behavior (for large distances) compatible with the inverse square law,…

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Social media are transforming global communication and coordination and provide unprecedented opportunities for studying socio-technical domains. Here we study global dynamical patterns of communication on Twitter across many scales.…

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