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Location prediction forecasts a user's location based on historical user mobility traces. To tackle the intrinsic sparsity issue of real-world user mobility traces, spatiotemporal contexts have been shown as significantly useful. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Bangchao Deng , Bingqing Qu , Pengyang Wang , Dingqi Yang , Benjamin Fankhauser , Philippe Cudre-Mauroux

Human mobility prediction is crucial for applications ranging from location-based recommendations to urban planning, which aims to forecast users' next location visits based on historical trajectories. While existing mobility prediction…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yu Wang , Junshu Dai , Yuchen Ying , Hanyang Yuan , Zunlei Feng , Tongya Zheng , Mingli Song

Understanding human mobility is critical for decision support in areas from urban planning to infectious diseases control. Prior work has focused on tracking daily logs of outdoor mobility without considering relevant context, which contain…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-09-26 Kewei Zhang , Minkyoung Kim , Raja Jurdak , Dean Paini

Human activity, which usually consists of several actions, generally covers interactions among persons and or objects. In particular, human actions involve certain spatial and temporal relationships, are the components of more complicated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Zhenyu Liu , Yaqiang Yao , Yan Liu , Yuening Zhu , Zhenchao Tao , Lei Wang , Yuhong Feng

Social network structure is very important for understanding human information diffusing, cooperating and competing patterns. It can bring us with some deep insights about how people affect each other. As a part of complex networks, social…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-02-19 Yanqing Hu , Yougui Wang , Zengru Di

Recent seminal works on human mobility have shown that individuals constantly exploit a small set of repeatedly visited locations. A concurrent literature has emphasized the explorative nature of human behavior, showing that the number of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-06-20 Laura Alessandretti , Piotr Sapiezynski , Vedran Sekara , Sune Lehmann , Andrea Baronchelli

In the advent of a pervasive presence of location sharing services researchers gained an unprecedented access to the direct records of human activity in space and time. This paper analyses geo-located Twitter messages in order to uncover…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-03-03 Bartosz Hawelka , Izabela Sitko , Euro Beinat , Stanislav Sobolevsky , Pavlos Kazakopoulos , Carlo Ratti

We develop a hierarchical structure (HS) analysis for quantitative description of statistical states of spatially extended systems. Examples discussed here include an experimental reaction-diffusion system with Belousov-Zhabotinsky…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-05-23 Jian Liu , Zhen-Su She , Hongyu Guo , Liang Li , Qi Ouyang

Meta-population networks are effective tools for capturing population movement across distinct regions, but the assumption of well-mixed regions fails to capture the reality of population higher-order interactions. As a multidimensional…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-06-18 Yanyi Nie , Yanbing Liu , Qixuan Cao , Tao Lin , Wei Wang

Many growth processes lead to intriguing stochastic patterns and complex fractal structures which exhibit local scale invariance properties. Such structures can often be described effectively by space-time trajectories of interacting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-06-07 Adnan Ali , Robin C. Ball , Stefan Grosskinsky , Ellak Somfai

Predicting human mobility flows at different spatial scales is challenged by the heterogeneity of individual trajectories and the multi-scale nature of transportation networks. As vast amounts of digital traces of human behaviour become…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-02-08 M. G. Beiró , A. Panisson , M. Tizzoni , C. Cattuto

Sociological studies on transnational migration are often based on surveys or interviews, an expensive and time consuming approach. On the other hand, the pervasiveness of mobile phones and location aware social networks has introduced new…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-07-23 Victor R. Martinez , Antonio Mancilla , Victor M. Gonzalez

Since the times of Holtsmark (1911), statistics of fields in random environments have been widely studied, for example in astrophysics, active matter, and line-shape broadening. The power-law decay of the two-body interaction, of the form…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-29 Avraham Samama , Eli Barkai

We trace the connectivity of the cosmic web as defined by haloes in the Planck-Millennium simulation using a persistence and Betti curve analysis. We normalise clustering up to the second-order correlation function, and use our systematic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-23 Raul Bermejo , Georg Wilding , Rien van de Weygaert , Bernard J. T. Jones , Gert Vegter , Konstantinos Efstathiou

Understanding how species interactions shape biodiversity is a core challenge in ecology. While much focus has been on long-term stability, there is rising interest in transient dynamics-the short-lived periods when ecosystems respond to…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-27 Sourin Chatterjee , Sayantan Nag Chowdhury

We study the problem of robot navigation in dense and interactive crowds with static constraints such as corridors and furniture. Previous methods fail to consider all types of spatial and temporal interactions among agents and obstacles,…

Almost all the media the particles move in are non-static. Depending on the expected resolution of the studied dynamics and the amplitude of the displacement of the media, sometimes the non-static behaviours of the media can not be ignored.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-01-05 Tian Zhou , Pengbo Xu , Weihua Deng

Modelling human mobility is crucial in several areas, from urban planning to epidemic modeling, traffic forecasting, and what-if analysis. On the one hand, existing models focus mainly on reproducing the spatial and temporal dimensions of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Giuliano Cornacchia , Giulio Rossetti , Luca Pappalardo

Human behaviors, including scientific activities, are shaped by the hierarchical divisions of geography. As a result, researchers' mobility patterns vary across regions, influencing several aspects of the scientific community. These aspects…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-04-03 Yurui Huang , Langtian Ma , Chaolin Tian , Xunyi Jiang , Roberta Sinatra , Yifang Ma

Over the past decades much effort has been devoted towards understanding and forecasting natural hazards. However, earthquake forecasting skill is still very limited and remains a great scientific challenge. The limited earthquake…