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Detailed knowledge of the energy needs at relatively high spatial and temporal resolution is crucial for the electricity infrastructure planning of a region. However, such information is typically limited by the scarcity of data on human…

The analysis of longitudinal travel data enables investigating how mobility patterns vary across the population and identify the spatial properties thereof. The objective of this study is to identify the extent to which users explore…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-07-01 Oded Cats , Francesco Ferranti

In this work, we uncover patterns of usage mobile phone applications and information spread in response to perturbations caused by unprecedented events. We focus on categorizing patterns of response in both space and time and tracking their…

Mobile devices have become essential for capturing human activity, and eXtended Data Records (XDRs) offer rich opportunities for detailed user behavior modeling, which is useful for designing personalized digital services. Previous studies…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Anne Josiane Kouam , Aline Carneiro Viana , Mariano G. Beiró , Leo Ferres , Luca Pappalardo

With the aim to contribute to humanitarian response to disasters and violent events, scientists have proposed the development of analytical tools that could identify emergency events in real-time, using mobile phone data. The assumption is…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-08-19 Adrian Dobra , Nathalie E. Williams , Nathan Eagle

Urban vibrancy is the dynamic activity of humans in urban locations. It can vary with urban features and the opportunities for human interactions, but it might also differ according to the underlying social conditions of city inhabitants…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-11-01 Thomas Collins , Riccardo Di Clemente , Mario Gutiérrez-Roig , Federico Botta

The information collected by mobile phone operators can be considered as the most detailed information on human mobility across a large part of the population. The study of the dynamics of human mobility using the collected geolocations of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-11-21 Nicolas Ponieman , Alejo Salles , Carlos Sarraute

Pervasive infrastructures, such as cell phone networks, enable to capture large amounts of human behavioral data but also provide information about the structure of cities and their dynamical properties. In this article, we focus on these…

The massive amounts of geolocation data collected from mobile phone records has sparked an ongoing effort to understand and predict the mobility patterns of human beings. In this work, we study the extent to which social phenomena are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-11-18 Nicolas Ponieman , Alejo Salles , Carlos Sarraute

Traditional sources of population data, such as censuses and surveys, are costly, infrequent, and often unavailable in crisis-affected regions. Mobile phone application data offer near real-time, high-resolution insights into population…

Applications · Statistics 2025-09-04 Carmen Cabrera , Francisco Rowe

With people constantly migrating to different urban areas, our mobility needs for work, services and leisure are transforming rapidly. The changing urban demographics pose several challenges for the efficient management of transit services.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-06-08 Trivik Verma , Mikhail Sirenko , Itto Kornecki , Scott Cunningham , Nuno AM Araújo

Human mobility has been traditionally studied using surveys that deliver snapshots of population displacement patterns. The growing accessibility to ICT information from portable digital media has recently opened the possibility of…

Understanding the patterns of mobility of individuals is crucial for a number of reasons, from city planning to disaster management. There are two common ways of quantifying the amount of travel between locations: by direct observations…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-08-25 Vasyl Palchykov , Marija Mitrović , Hang-Hyun Jo , Jari Saramäki , Raj Kumar Pan

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 population estimation techniques often fail to capture the dynamic fluctuations inherent in urban and rural population movements. Recognizing the need for a high spatiotemporal dynamic population dataset, we propose a method…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Huan Ning , Zhenlong Li , Manzhu Yu , Shiyan Zhang , Shan Qiao

Up-to-date information on different modes of travel to monitor transport traffic and evaluate rapid urban transport planning interventions is often lacking. Transport systems typically rely on traditional data sources providing outdated…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Eduardo Graells-Garrido , Daniela Opitz , Francisco Rowe , Jacqueline Arriagada

User online behavior and interests will play a central role in future mobile networks. We introduce a systematic method for large-scale multi-dimensional analysis of online activity for thousands of mobile users across 79 buildings over a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-08-31 Saeed Moghaddam , Ahmed Helmy

An increasing number of human activities are studied using data produced by individuals' ICT devices. In particular, when ICT data contain spatial information, they represent an invaluable source for analyzing urban dynamics. However, there…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-11-27 Maxime Lenormand , Thomas Louail , Marc Barthelemy , José J. Ramasco

In the diverse landscape of 6G networks, where wireless connectivity demands surge and spectrum resources remain limited, flexible spectrum access becomes paramount. The success of crafting such schemes hinges on our ability to accurately…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Mohamad Alkadamani , Amir Ghasemi , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Call Detail Records (CDRs) are data recorded by telecommunications companies, consisting of basic informations related to several dimensions of the calls made through the network: the source, destination, date and time of calls. CDRs data…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-03-23 Romain Guigourès , Dominique Gay , Marc Boullé , Fabrice Clérot , Fabrice Rossi