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Spatio-temporal preferences and encounter statistics provide realistic measures to understand mobile user's behavioral preferences and transfer opportunities in Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs). The time dependent behavior and periodic…

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Understanding how people move within a geographic area, e.g. a city, a country or the whole world, is fundamental in several applications, from predicting the spatio-temporal evolution of an epidemics to inferring migration patterns. Mobile…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-10-27 Manlio De Domenico , Joan T. Matamalas , Alex Arenas

This report focuses on spatial data intelligent large models, delving into the principles, methods, and cutting-edge applications of these models. It provides an in-depth discussion on the definition, development history, current status,…

Data on human spatial distribution and movement is essential for understanding and analyzing social systems. However existing sources for this data are lacking in various ways; difficult to access, biased, have poor geographical or temporal…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-06-22 Mark Dredze , Manuel García-Herranz , Alex Rutherford , Gideon Mann

A common feature across many science and engineering applications is the amount and diversity of data and computation that must be integrated to yield insights. Data sets are growing larger and becoming distributed; and their location,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-09-14 Shantenu Jha , Daniel S. Katz , Andre Luckow , Omer Rana , Yogesh Simmhan , Neil Chue Hong

Cycling is a key ingredient for a sustainability shift of Denmark's transportation system. To increase cycling rates, a better nationwide network of bicycle infrastructure is required. Planning such a network requires high-quality…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Ane Rahbek Vierø , Anastassia Vybornova , Michael Szell

Nowadays, travel surveys provide rich information about urban mobility and commuting patterns. But, at the same time, they have drawbacks: they are static pictures of a dynamic phenomena, are expensive to make, and take prolonged periods of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Eduardo Graells-Garrido , Diego Saez-Trumper

Data analytics and data science play a significant role in nowadays society. In the context of Smart Grids (SG), the collection of vast amounts of data has seen the emergence of a plethora of data analysis approaches. In this paper, we…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Bruno Rossi , Stanislav Chren

This paper addresses the problem of learning instantaneous occupancy levels of dynamic environments and predicting future occupancy levels. Due to the complexity of most real-world environments, such as urban streets or crowded areas, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Vitor Guizilini , Ransalu Senanayake , Fabio Ramos

The expansion of urban centers necessitates enhanced efficiency and sustainability in their transportation infrastructure and mobility systems. The big data obtainable from various transportation modes potentially offers critical insights…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-04-17 Oluwaleke Yusuf , Adil Rasheed , Frank Lindseth

This study analyzes mobile phone data derived from 10 million daily active users across the United States to better understand the spatio-temporal activity patterns of users in Central Park, New York. The aim of this initial investigation…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Wenfei Xu

In the last decade, following the emergence of the mobile applications domain, the significance of location information has changed radically. Nowadays, location data not only is a key component of geospatial databases, but also a critical…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Maria Luisa Damiani

As buildings are central to the social and environmental sustainability of human settlements, high-quality geospatial data are necessary to support their management and planning. Authorities around the world are increasingly collecting and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Filip Biljecki , Lawrence Zheng Xiong Chew , Nikola Milojevic-Dupont , Felix Creutzig

Reliable statistical information is important to make political decisions on a sound basis and to help measure the impact of policies. Unfortunately, statistics offices in developing countries have scarce resources and statistical censuses…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2013-09-19 Thoralf Gutierrez , Gautier Krings , Vincent D. Blondel

Walkability is a key component of sustainable urban development. In walkability studies, collecting detailed pedestrian infrastructure data remains challenging due to the high costs and limited scalability of traditional methods. Sidewalk…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Xing Tong , Michele D. Simoni , Kaj Munhoz Arfvidsson , Jonas Mårtensson

Monitoring urban structure and development requires high-quality data at high spatiotemporal resolution. While traditional censuses have provided foundational insights into demographic and socioeconomic aspects of urban life, their pace may…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-03-20 Gezhi Xiu , Jianying Wang , Thilo Gross , Mei-Po Kwan , Xia Peng , Yu Liu

Social network data offer interesting opportunities in urban studies. In this study, we used Twitter data to analyse city dynamics over the course of the day. Users of this social network were grouped according to city zone and time slot in…

The importance of human mobility analyses is growing in both research and practice, especially as applications for urban planning and mobility rely on them. Aggregate statistics and visualizations play an essential role as building blocks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Alexandra Kapp , Saskia Nuñez von Voigt , Helena Mihaljević , Florian Tschorsch

In the past decade, large scale mobile phone data have become available for the study of human movement patterns. These data hold an immense promise for understanding human behavior on a vast scale, and with a precision and accuracy never…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-02-17 Nathalie E. Williams , Timothy A. Thomas , Matthew Dunbar , Nathan Eagle , Adrian Dobra

Today, GPS-equipped mobile devices are ubiquitous, and they generate Location-Based Service (LBS) data, which has become a critical resource for understanding human mobility. However, inherent limitations in LBS datasets, primarily…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Xinhua Wu , Yanchao Wang , Ekin Ugurel , Cynthia Chen , Shuai Huang , Qi R. Wang