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In Turkey the increasing tension, due to the presence of 3.4 million Syrian refugees, demands the formulation of effective integration policies. Moreover, their design requires tools aimed at understanding the integration of refugees…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Antonio L. Alfeo , Mario G. C. A. Cimino , Bruno Lepri , Alex 'Sandy' Pentland , Gigliola Vaglini

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

Migration patterns are complex and context-dependent, with the distances migrants travel varying greatly depending on socio-economic and demographic factors. While global migration studies often focus on Western countries, there is a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-03-30 Irene Tafani , Ola Ali , Rafael Prieto-Curiel , Massimo Riccaboni

Despite the growing popularity of human mobility studies that collect GPS location data, the problem of determining the minimum required length of GPS monitoring has not been addressed in the current statistical literature. In this paper we…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2019-08-28 Zhihang Dong , Yen-Chi Chen , Adrian Dobra

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

Spatial boundaries, such as ecological transitions or climatic regime interfaces, capture steep environmental gradients, and shifts in their structure can signal emerging environmental changes. Quantifying uncertainty in spatial boundary…

Applications · Statistics 2025-12-18 Stephen Tivenan , Indranil Sahoo , Yanjun Qian

The mapping of populations socio-economic well-being is highly constrained by the logistics of censuses and surveys. Consequently, spatially detailed changes across scales of days, weeks, or months, or even year to year, are difficult to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Abdullah Almaatouq , Francisco Prieto-Castrillo , Alex Pentland

Today, 95% of the global population has 2G mobile phone coverage and the number of individuals who own a mobile phone is at an all time high. Mobile phones generate rich data on billions of people across different societal contexts and have…

Recent availability of geo-localized data capturing individual human activity together with the statistical data on international migration opened up unprecedented opportunities for a study on global mobility. In this paper we consider it…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-01-22 Alexander Belyi , Iva Bojic , Stanislav Sobolevsky , Izabela Sitko , Bartosz Hawelka , Lada Rudikova , Alexander Kurbatski , Carlo Ratti

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

Because of the complexity of urban transportation networks and the temporal changes in traffic conditions, it is difficult to assess real-time traffic situations. However, the development of information terminals has made it easier to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Tatsuro Mukai , Yuichi Ikeda

Most capture-recapture models assume that individuals either do not emigrate or emigrate permanently from the sampling area during the sampling period. This assumption is violated when individuals temporarily leave the sampling area and…

Applications · Statistics 2025-10-09 Katarina Skopalova , Jafet Osuna , Wei Zhang

This is a brief survey of the research performed by Grandata Labs in collaboration with numerous academic groups around the world on the topic of human mobility. A driving theme in these projects is to use and improve Data Science…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Carlos Sarraute , Martin Minnoni

In many developing countries, half the population lives in rural locations, where access to essentials such as school materials, mosquito nets, and medical supplies is restricted. We propose an alternative method of distribution (to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-09-27 James McInerney , Alex Rogers , Nicholas R. Jennings

Reliable data about the stock of physical capital and infrastructure in developing countries is typically very scarce. This is particular a problem for data at the subnational level where existing data is often outdated, not consistently…

General Economics · Economics 2020-09-14 Klaus Ackermann , Alexey Chernikov , Nandini Anantharama , Miethy Zaman , Paul A Raschky

Mobile phone metadata is increasingly used for humanitarian purposes in developing countries as traditional data is scarce. Basic demographic information is however often absent from mobile phone datasets, limiting the operational impact of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-16 Bjarke Felbo , Pål Sundsøy , Alex 'Sandy' Pentland , Sune Lehmann , Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye

Studies in malaria control cover many areas such as medicine, sociology, biology, mathematic, physic, computer science and so forth. Researches in the realm of mathematic are conducted to predict the occurrence of the disease and to support…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-04-15 Lynda Bouzid Khiri , Ibrahima Gueye , Hubert Naacke , Idrissa Sarr , Stéphane Gançarski

Data volume grows explosively with the proliferation of powerful smartphones and innovative mobile applications. The ability to accurately and extensively monitor and analyze these data is necessary. Much concern in mobile data analysis is…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Mohammadhossein Ghahramani , MengChu Zhou , Gang Wang

In this paper, we present Breadcrumbs, a mobility dataset collected in the city of Lausanne (Switzerland) from multiple mobile phone sensors (GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth) from 81 users for a duration of 12 weeks. Currently available mobility…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Arielle Moro , Vaibhav Kulkarni , Pierre-Adrien Ghiringhelli , Bertil Chapuis , Benoit Garbinato

Animals often exhibit changes in their behavior during migration. Telemetry data provide a way to observe geographic position of animals over time, but not necessarily changes in the dynamics of the movement process. Continuous-time models…

Applications · Statistics 2018-03-30 Mevin B. Hooten , Henry R. Scharf , Trevor J. Hefley , Aaron T. Pearse , Mitch D. Weegman