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The unavailability of training data is a permanent source of much frustration in research, especially when it is due to privacy concerns. This is particularly true for location data since previous techniques all suffer from the inherent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Szilvia Lestyán , Gergely Ács , Gergely Biczók

In recent years, the amount of information collected about human beings has increased dramatically. This development has been partially driven by individuals posting and storing data about themselves and friends using online social networks…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-03-24 Arkadiusz Stopczynski , Riccardo Pietri , Alex Pentland , David Lazer , Sune Lehmann

Urban mobility data are indispensable for urban planning, transportation demand forecasting, pandemic modeling, and many other applications; however, individual mobile phone-derived Global Positioning System traces cannot generally be…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Jun'ichi Ozaki , Ryosuke Susuta , Takuhiro Moriyama , Yohei Shida

Scikit-network is a Python package inspired by scikit-learn for the analysis of large graphs. Graphs are represented by their adjacency matrix in the sparse CSR format of SciPy. The package provides state-of-the-art algorithms for ranking,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Thomas Bonald , Nathan de Lara , Quentin Lutz , Bertrand Charpentier

Human mobility is a fundamental pillar of urban science and sustainability, providing critical insights into energy consumption, carbon emissions, and public health. However, the discovery of universal mobility laws is currently hindered by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Yuan Yuan , Yukun Liu , Chonghua Han , Jie Feng , Yong Li

Location data can be extremely useful to study commuting patterns and disruptions, as well as to predict real-time traffic volumes. At the same time, however, the fine-grained collection of user locations raises serious privacy concerns, as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Apostolos Pyrgelis , Emiliano De Cristofaro , Gordon Ross

Networking research, especially focusing on human mobility, has evolved significantly in the last two decades and now relies on collection and analyzing larger datasets. The increasing sizes of datasets are enabled by larger automated…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Leonardo Tonetto , Pauline Kister , Nitinder Mohan , Jörg Ott

In this paper, we present a nonlinear analysis software toolkit, which can help in biomechanical gait data analysis by implementing various nonlinear statistical analysis algorithms. The toolkit is proposed to tackle the need for an…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Shifat Sarwar , Aaron Likens , Nick Stergiou , Spyridon Mastorakis

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

Human mobility analysis is an important issue in social sciences, and mobility data are among the most sought-after sources of information in ur- Data ban studies, geography, transportation and territory management. In network sciences…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2013-01-29 Thomas Couronne , Zbigniew Smoreda , Ana-Maria Olteanu

Human Mobility has attracted attentions from different fields of studies such as epidemic modeling, traffic engineering, traffic prediction and urban planning. In this survey we review major characteristics of human mobility studies…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-07-04 Fereshteh Asgari , Vincent Gauthier , Monique Becker

On-line social networks have grown quickly over the last few years and nowadays many people use them frequently. Furthermore the emergence of smartphones allows to access these networks any time from any physical location. Among the social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Antònia Tugores , Pere Colet

This paper offers a comprehensive examination of single-file experiments within the field of pedestrian dynamics, providing a review from both theoretical and analytical perspectives. It begins by tracing the historical context of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-11-07 Rudina Subaih , Antoine Tordeux , Mohcine Chraibi

Mobility traces are among the most revealing forms of personal data, yet trajectory releases are often protected only by ad hoc transformations. We stress-test such practices on recently-released YJMob100K, an anonymized dataset of 100,000…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Abhishek Kumar Mishra , Mathieu Cunche , Heber H. Arcolezi

The proliferation of physiological sensors opens new opportunities to explore interactions, conduct experiments and evaluate the user experience with continuous monitoring of bodily functions. Commercial devices, however, can be costly or…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Jitesh Joshi , Katherine Wang , Youngjun Cho

Studies using massive, passively data collected from communication technologies have revealed many ubiquitous aspects of social networks, helping us understand and model social media, information diffusion, and organizational dynamics. More…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-02-04 Jameson L. Toole , Carlos Herrera-Yague , Christian M. Schneider , Marta C. Gonzalez

Behavioral studies using personal digital devices typically produce rich longitudinal datasets of mixed data types. These data provide information about the behavior of users of these devices in real-time and in the users' natural…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-12-06 A. Ikäheimonen , A. M. Triana , N. Luong , A. Ziaei , J. Rantaharju , R. Darst , T. Aledavood

An increasing amount of mobility data is being collected every day by different means, e.g., by mobile phone operators. This data is sometimes published after the application of simple anonymization techniques, which might lead to severe…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Vincent Primault , Sonia Ben Mokhtar , Lionel Brunie

Individual-level human mobility prediction has emerged as a significant topic of research with applications in infectious disease monitoring, child, and elderly care. Existing studies predominantly focus on the microscopic aspects of human…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Yueyang Liu , Lance Kennedy , Ruochen Kong , Joon-Seok Kim , Andreas Züfle