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Despite the long history of modelling human mobility, we continue to lack a highly accurate approach with low data requirements for predicting mobility patterns in cities. Here, we present a population-weighted opportunities model without…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-10-03 Xiao-Yong Yan , Chen Zhao , Ying Fan , Zengru Di , Wen-Xu Wang

In this Working Paper we analyse computational strategies for using aggregated spatio-temporal population data acquired from telecommunications networks to infer travel and movement patterns between geographical regions. Specifically, we…

This paper describes in details the design and development of a novel annotation framework and of annotated resources for Internal Displacement, as the outcome of a collaboration with the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, aimed at…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Fabio Poletto , Yunbai Zhang , Andre Panisson , Yelena Mejova , Daniela Paolotti , Sylvain Ponserre

Predicting human mobility is crucial for urban planning, traffic control, and emergency response. Mobility behaviors can be categorized into individual and collective, and these behaviors are recorded by diverse mobility data, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Qingyue Long , Yuan Yuan , Yong Li

Context awareness is an important enabler for next generation of Mobile Core Networks (MCN). However there exist a number of challenges in this regard. For example how to develop a framework which 1) is able to generate context richer than…

Remote monitoring of motor functions is a powerful approach for health assessment, especially among the elderly population or among subjects affected by pathologies that negatively impact their walking capabilities. This is further…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-18 Antonio Bevilacqua , Lisa Alcock , Brian Caulfield , Eran Gazit , Clint Hansen , Neil Ireson , Georgiana Ifrim

This paper presents e112, a context-aware mobile emergency response application designed to strengthen communication between citizens and authorities during disasters. Building on the ubiquity of smartphones, the system provides SOS…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Katerina Ioannidou , Marios D. Dikaiakos , Athena Stassopoulou

Ambulance services worldwide are of vital importance to population health. Timely responding to incidents by dispatching an ambulance vehicle to the location a call came from can offer significant benefits to patient care across a number of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Gergana Todorova , Anastasios Noulas

Contextual information is vital for accurate trajectory prediction. For instance, the intricate flying behavior of migratory birds hinges on their analysis of environmental cues such as wind direction and air pressure. However, the diverse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Jiang Wu , Dongyu Liu , Yuchen Lin , Yingcai Wu

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

Short-horizon epidemic forecasts guide near-term staffing, testing, and messaging. Mobility data are now routinely used to improve such forecasts, yet work diverges on whether the volume of mobility or the structure of mobility networks…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-24 Sepehr Ilami , Qingtao Cao , Babak Heydari

This study examines behavioral responses to mobile phone evacuation alerts during the February 2024 wildfires in Valpara\'iso, Chile. Using anonymized mobile network data from 580,000 devices, we analyze population movement following…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Erick Elejalde , Timur Naushirvanov , Kyriaki Kalimeri , Elisa Omodei , Márton Karsai , Loreto Bravo , Leo Ferres

An intriguing open question is whether measurements made on Big Data recording human activities can yield us high-fidelity proxies of socio-economic development and well-being. Can we monitor and predict the socio-economic development of a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-04-28 Luca Pappalardo , Maarten Vanhoof , Lorenzo Gabrielli , Zbigniew Smoreda , Dino Pedreschi , Fosca Giannotti

While analysis of urban commuting data has a long and demonstrated history of providing useful insights into human mobility behavior, such analysis has been performed largely in offline fashion and to aid medium-to-long term urban planning.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-06-18 Lakmal Meegahapola , Thivya Kandappu , Kasthuri Jayarajah , Leman Akoglu , Shili Xiang , Archan Misra

Smartphone-based earthquake early warning systems implemented by citizen science initiatives are characterized by a significant variability in their smartphone network geometry. This has an direct impact on the earthquake detection…

Applications · Statistics 2022-11-03 Francesco Finazzi , Frank Yannick Massoda Tchoussi

This study presents a novel small-area estimation framework to enhance urban transportation planning through detailed characterization of travel behavior. Our approach improves on the four-step travel model by employing publicly available…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Yangyang Wang , Tayo Fabusuyi

This paper presents a novel context-based approach for pedestrian motion prediction in crowded, urban intersections, with the additional flexibility of prediction in similar, but new, environments. Previously, Chen et. al. combined…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Golnaz Habibi , Nikita Jaipuria , Jonathan P. How

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

Population displacement is a housing-related involuntary residential dislocation. It has become increasingly widespread in many cities, particularly in neighbourhoods undergoing rapid economic and demographic change, and measuring it is…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Rita Rodríguez Vázquez , Manuel Cuerno

Applications like personal assistants need to be aware ofthe user's context, e.g., where they are, what they are doing, and with whom. Context information is usually inferred from sensor data, like GPS sensors and accelerometers on the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Qiang Shen , Stefano Teso , Wanyi Zhang , Hao Xu , Fausto Giunchiglia