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In this paper, we aim to monitor the flow of people in large public infrastructures. We propose an unsupervised methodology to cluster people flow patterns into the most typical and meaningful configurations. By processing 3D images from a…

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Live migration, a technology enabling seamless transition of operational computational entities between various hosts while preserving continuous functionality and client connectivity, has been the subject of extensive research. However,…

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Our perceptions are shaped by the social networks we are embedded in. Despite the acknowledged influence of close contacts on how we perceive the world, the role of the broader social environment remains opaque. Here, we leverage a unique…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-07-10 Yuliia Kazmina , Eelke M. Heemskerk , Eszter Bokányi , Frank W. Takes

Groups of firms often achieve a competitive advantage through the formation of geo-industrial clusters. Although many exemplary clusters, such as Hollywood or Silicon Valley, have been frequently studied, systematic approaches to identify…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Jaehyuk Park , Ian Wood , Elise Jing , Azadeh Nematzadeh , Souvik Ghosh , Michael Conover , Yong-Yeol Ahn

Machine learning (ML) tasks often utilize large-scale data that is drawn from several distinct sources, such as different locations, treatment arms, or groups. In such settings, practitioners often desire predictions that not only exhibit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Gauri Jain , Dominik Rothenhäusler , Kirk Bansak , Elisabeth Paulson

The emergence of large stores of transactional data generated by increasing use of digital devices presents a huge opportunity for policymakers to improve their knowledge of the local environment and thus make more informed and better…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-10-27 Graham McNeill , Jonathan Bright , Scott A. Hale

High skill labour is an important factor underpinning the competitive advantage of modern economies. Therefore, attracting and retaining scientists has become a major concern for migration policy. In this work, we study the migration of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-02-15 Giacomo Vaccario , Luca Verginer , Frank Schweitzer

In theory, a major advantage to the big data approach in studying online communities is that it should be possible to collect a representative random sample from a broadly defined population. However, in practice, data collection processes…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Muhammad Umer Gurchani

Clustering algorithms aim to organize data into groups or clusters based on the inherent patterns and similarities within the data. They play an important role in today's life, such as in marketing and e-commerce, healthcare, data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Hui Yin , Amir Aryani , Stephen Petrie , Aishwarya Nambissan , Aland Astudillo , Shengyuan Cao

The interaction of all mobile species with their environment hinges on their movement patterns: the places they visit and how frequently they go there. In human society, where the prevalent form of cohabitation is in cities, the highly…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-02-17 Markus Schläpfer , Michael Szell , Hadrien Salat , Carlo Ratti , Geoffrey B. West

People are always in search of matters for which they are prone to use internet, but again it has huge assemblage of data due to which it becomes difficult for the reader to get the most accurate data. To make it easier for people to gather…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-04-07 Monica Jha

The separability of clusters is one of the most desired properties in clustering. There is a wide range of settings in which different clusterings of the same data set appear. We are interested in applications where there is a need for an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-26 Steffen Borgwardt , Felix Happach , Stetson Zirkelbach

The rise of location positioning technologies has generated enormous volumes of digital footprints. Translating this big data into understandable trip patterns plays a crucial role in estimating infrastructure demands. Previous studies were…

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Clustering algorithms are one of the main analytical methods to detect patterns in unlabeled data. Existing clustering methods typically treat samples in a dataset as points in a metric space and compute distances to group together similar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Tarek Naous , Srinjay Sarkar , Abubakar Abid , James Zou

Migrants' assimilation is a major challenge for European societies, in part because of the sudden surge of refugees in recent years and in part because of long-term demographic trends. In this paper, we use Facebook's data for advertisers…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Antoine Dubois , Emilio Zagheni , Kiran Garimella , Ingmar Weber

The epidemiology of pandemics is classically viewed using geographical and political borders; however, these artificial divisions can result in a misunderstanding of the current epidemiological state within a given region. To improve upon…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-28 David Lyver , Mihai Nica , Corentin Cot , Giacomo Cacciapaglia , Zahra Mohammadi , Edward W. Thommes , Monica-Gabriela Cojocaru

We explore the relationship between human migration and OECD's foreign direct investment (FDI) using a gravity equation enriched with variables that account for complex-network effects. Based on a panel data analysis, we find a strong…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-01-27 Antonios Garas , Athanasios Lapatinas , Konstantinos Poulios

Introduction. It is well known that social contact patterns differ from country to country. This variation coincides with significant socioeconomic heterogeneity that complicates the design of effective non-pharmaceutical interventions.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-03-31 Evans Kiptoo Korir , Zsolt Vizi

Understanding human mobility patterns is important in applications as diverse as urban planning, public health, and political organizing. One rich source of data on human mobility is taxi ride data. Using the city of Chicago as a case…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Harish Chauhan , Nikunj Gupta , Zoe Haskell-Craig

Reliable analysis of migration is critically dependent on the quality and consistency of the underlying data. Indian migration data, primarily derived from decennial census records, are affected by systematic gaps arising from uneven…

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