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Despite the advanced stage of epidemic modeling, there is a major demand for methods to incorporate behavioral responses to the spread of a disease such as social distancing and adoption of prevention methods. Mobility plays an important…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-03-14 Paulo Cesar Ventura , Alberto Aleta , Francisco A. Rodrigues , Yamir Moreno

Ubiquitous mobile devices are generating vast amounts of location-based service data that reveal how individuals navigate and utilize urban spaces in detail. In this study, we utilize these extensive, unlabeled sequences of user…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Xinhua Wu , Haoyu He , Yanchao Wang , Qi Wang

Human movements in the real world and in cyberspace affect not only dynamical processes such as epidemic spreading and information diffusion but also social and economical activities such as urban planning and personalized recommendation in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-06-22 Yi-Ming Zhao , An Zeng , Xiao-Yong Yan , Wen-Xu Wang , Ying-Cheng Lai

Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) are formed by a collection of mobile nodes (MNs) that are capable of moving from one location to another location. These networks are widely identified by their unique characteristics such as lack of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Mohsin Ur Rahman

Rapid advances in modern communication technology are enabling the accumulation of large-scale, high-resolution observational data of spatiotemporal movements of humans. Classification and prediction of human mobility based on the analysis…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-03-16 Juyong Park , Deok-Sun Lee , Marta C. Gonzalez

Virtually all real-world networks are dynamical entities. In social networks, the propensity of nodes to engage in social interactions (activity) and their chances to be selected by active nodes (attractiveness) are heterogeneously…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-06-13 Laura Alessandretti , Kaiyuan Sun , Andrea Baronchelli , Nicola Perra

Interconnected ensembles of biological entities are perhaps some of the most complex systems that modern science has encountered so far. In particular, scientists have concentrated on understanding how the complexity of the interacting…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2020-11-18 Bram A. Siebert , Cameron L. Hall , James P. Gleeson , Malbor Asllani

Various forms of disruption in transport systems perturb urban mobility in different ways. Passengers respond heterogeneously to such disruptive events based on numerous factors. This study takes a data-driven approach to explore…

Applications · Statistics 2023-07-04 Ali Shateri Benam , Angelo Furno , Nour-Eddin El Faouzi

Human mobility in cities is shaped not only by visible structures such as highways, rivers, and parks but also by invisible barriers rooted in socioeconomic segregation, uneven access to amenities, and administrative divisions. Yet…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Guangyuan Weng , Minsuk Kim , Yong-Yeol Ahn , Esteban Moro

We propose a simple adaptive-network model describing recent swarming experiments. Exploiting an analogy with human decision making, we capture the dynamics of the model by a low-dimensional system of equations permitting analytical…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2011-07-15 Cristián Huepe , Gerd Zschaler , Anne-Ly Do , Thilo Gross

Realistic mobility models are fundamental to evaluate the performance of protocols in mobile ad hoc networks. Unfortunately, there are no mobility models that capture the non-homogeneous behaviors in both space and time commonly found in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2008-10-23 Wei-jen Hsu , Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos , Konstantinos Psounis , Ahmed Helmy

Electronic communication records provide detailed information about temporal aspects of human interaction. Previous studies have shown that individuals' communication patterns have complex temporal structure, and that this structure has…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-03-05 Lauri Kovanen , Kimmo Kaski , János Kertész , Jari Saramäki

Recent advances in machine learning have dramatically improved our ability to model language, vision, and other high-dimensional data, yet they continue to struggle with one of the most fundamental aspects of biological systems: movement.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Melanie Segado , Felipe Parodi , Jordan K. Matelsky , Michael L. Platt , Eva B. Dyer , Konrad P. Kording

Human interactions and mobility shape epidemic dynamics by facilitating disease outbreaks and their spatial spread across regions. Traditional models often isolate commuting and random mobility as separate behaviors, focusing either on…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-12-11 Pablo Valgañón , Antonio Brotons , David Soriano-Paños , Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes

Evolutionary models are used to study the self-organisation of collective action, often incorporating population structure due to its ubiquitous presence and long-known impact on emerging phenomena. We investigate the evolution of…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2023-04-20 Diogo L. Pires , Igor Erovenko , Mark Broom

What drives the propensity for the social network dynamics? Social influence is believed to drive both off-line and on-line human behavior, however it has not been considered as a driver of social network evolution. Our analysis suggest…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-05-27 Yang Yang , Nitesh V. Chawla , Ryan N. Lichtenwalter , Yuxiao Dong

Motility is an essential factor for an organism's survival and diversification. With the advent of novel single-cell technologies, analytical frameworks and theoretical methods, we can begin to probe the complex lives of microscopic motile…

Whether in search of better trade opportunities or escaping wars, humans have always been on the move. For almost a century, mathematical models of human mobility have been instrumental in the quantification of commuting patterns and…

Human mobility is a key factor in spatial disease dynamics and related phenomena. In computational models host mobility is typically modelled by diffusion in space or on metapolulation networks. Alternatively, an effective force of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-03-07 Vitaly Belik , Theo Geisel , Dirk Brockmann

Mobile phone data has enabled the timely and fine-grained study human mobility. Call Detail Records, generated at call events, allow building descriptions of mobility at different resolutions and with different spatial, temporal and social…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-03-17 David Pastor-Escuredo , Enrique Frias-Martinez