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Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Nadav Shalit , Michael Fire , Eran Ben-Elia

Human mobility plays a critical role in urban planning and policy-making. However, at certain spatial and temporal resolutions, it is very challenging to track, for example, job and housing mobility. In this study, we explore the usage of a…

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Design and simulation of future mobile networks will center around human interests and behavior. We propose a design paradigm for mobile networks driven by realistic models of users' on-line behavior, based on mining of billions of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-05-31 Saeed Moghaddam , Ahmed Helmy , Sanjay Ranka , Manas Somaiya

Traditional anomaly detection in human mobility has primarily focused on trajectory-level analysis, identifying statistical outliers or spatiotemporal inconsistencies across aggregated movement traces. However, detecting individual-level…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Junyi Xie , Jina Kim , Yao-Yi Chiang , Lingyi Zhao , Khurram Shafique

The recent outbreak of a novel coronavirus and its rapid spread underlines the importance of understanding human mobility. Enclosed spaces, such as public transport vehicles (e.g. buses and trains), offer a suitable environment for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Ahmad El Shoghri , Jessica Liebig , Raja Jurdak , Lauren Gardner , Salil S. Kanhere

Investigations have been performed into using clustering methods in data mining time-series data from smart meters. The problem is to identify patterns and trends in energy usage profiles of commercial and industrial customers over 24-hour…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-03-25 Alexander Lavin , Diego Klabjan

Novel forms of data analysis methods have emerged as a significant research direction in the transportation domain. These methods can potentially help to improve our understanding of the dynamic flows of vehicles, people, and goods.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Ivens Portugal , Paulo Alencar , Donald Cowan

This chapter examines the possibility to analyze and compare human activities in an urban environment based on the detection of mobile phone usage patterns. Thanks to an unprecedented collection of counter data recording the number of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-06-18 S. Grauwin , S. Sobolevsky , S. Moritz , I. Gódor , C. Ratti

The pervasive use of new mobile devices has allowed a better characterization in space and time of human concentrations and mobility in general. Besides its theoretical interest, describing mobility is of great importance for a number of…

Urban areas provide us with a treasure trove of available data capturing almost every aspect of a population's life. This work focuses on mobility data and how it will help improve our understanding of urban mobility patterns. Readily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Liming Zhang , Andreas Züfle , Dieter Pfoser

The preponderance of connected devices provides unprecedented opportunities for fine-grained monitoring of the public infrastructure. However while classical models expect high quality application-specific data streams, the promise of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Baoyang Song , Hasan Poonawala , Laura Wynter , Sebastien Blandin

Understanding the spatiotemporal distribution of people within a city is crucial to many planning applications. Obtaining data to create required knowledge, currently involves costly survey methods. At the same time ubiquitous mobile…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-07-06 Jameson L. Toole , Michael Ulm , Dietmar Bauer , Marta C. Gonzalez

Human mobility is investigated using a continuum approach that allows to calculate the probability to observe a trip to anyarbitrary region, and the fluxes between any two regions. The considered description offers a general and unified…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-04-02 Filippo Simini , Amos Maritan , Zoltán Néda

Urban mobility is a multi-entity system that involves travelers, transport modes, and infrastructure. Beyond conventional origin/destination analysis, this paper investigates how process mining can structure and interpret mobility behavior…

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Understanding the mobility of humans and their devices is a fundamental problem in mobile computing. While there has been much work on empirical analysis of human mobility using mobile device data, prior work has largely assumed devices to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Amee Trivedi , Jeremy Gummeson , Prashant Shenoy

Opportunistic networks (OppNets) are modern types of intermittently connected networks in which mobile users communicate with each other via their short-range devices to share data among interested observers. In this setting, humans are the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Poria Pirozmand , Guowei Wu , Behrouz Jedari , Feng Xia

Uncovering human mobility patterns is of fundamental importance to the understanding of epidemic spreading, urban transportation and other socioeconomic dynamics embodying spatiality and human travel. According to the direct travel diaries…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-09-24 Xiao-Yong Yan , Xiao-Pu Han , Bing-Hong Wang , Tao Zhou

This study models and examines commuter's preferences for short-distance transportation modes, namely: walking, taking a bus or riding a metro. It is used a unique dataset from a large-scale field experiment in Singapore that provides rich…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-02-22 Francisco Benita , Garvit Bansal , Georgios Piliouras , Bige Tunçer

As a key energy challenge, we urgently require a better understanding of how growing urban populations interact with municipal energy systems and the resulting impact on energy demand across city neighborhoods, which are dense hubs of both…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-09-06 Neda Mohammadi , John E Taylor