物理与社会
Modeling of urban traffic flows is required due to the complexity of their successful forecasting, as well as due to the impact of various random factors on them, and the complexity of transport systems in modern cities. Forecasting of…
The paper investigates the features of emissions and fuel consumption (EFC) in a car-following (CF) platoon based on two experimental datasets. Four classical EFC models are employed and a universal concave growth pattern of the EFC along a…
Before 2020, the way occupants utilized the built environment had been changing slowly towards scenarios in which occupants have more choice and flexibility in where and how they work. The global COVID-19 pandemic accelerated this…
Understanding a complex system of relationships between courses is of great importance for the university's educational mission. This paper is dedicated to the study of course-prerequisite networks (CPNs), where nodes represent courses and…
Moran's index is a basic measure of spatial autocorrelation, which has been applied to varied fields of both natural and social sciences. A good measure should have clear boundary values or critical value. However, for Moran's index, both…
In this essay, we will defend the thesis that the multi-computational paradigm is a natural way of thinking about the fourth industrial revolution. This will be done considering the geometry that emerges as the continuum limit of multiway…
Urban inequality is a major challenge for cities in the 21st century. This inequality is reflected in the spatial income structure of cities which evolves in time through various processes. Gentrification is a well-known illustration of…
Moves in chess games are usually analyzed on a case-by-case basis by professional players, but thanks to the availability of large game databases, we can envision another approach of the game. Here, we indeed adopt a very different point of…
Rural-urban classifications are essential for analyzing geographic, demographic, environmental, and social processes across the rural-urban continuum. Most existing classifications are, however, only available at relatively aggregated…
The ranking of nodes in a network according to their ``importance'' is a classic problem that has attracted the interest of different scientific communities in the last decades. The current COVID-19 pandemic has recently rejuvenated the…
Three influential laws, namely Sarnoff's Law, Metcalfe's Law, and Reed's Law, have been established to describe network value in terms of the number of neighbors, edges, and subgraphs. Here, we highlight the coexistence of these laws in…
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the urge to find a cure triggered an international race to repurpose known drugs. Chloroquine, and next Hydroxychloroquine, emerged quickly as a promising treatment. While later clinical studies…
The science of cities is a relatively new and interdisciplinary topic. It borrows techniques from agent-based modeling, stochastic processes, and partial differential equations. However, how the cities rise and fall, how they evolve, and…
Polarization issue is generally subject to ideological polarization and affective polarization. In particular, affective polarization usually accelerates the polarization process and transform social interactions into a zero-sum game. Yet,…
Improving access to energy services among the underserved requires understanding the status quo in energy access and estimating future energy requirements of energy service provision. In this paper, we present a novel survey dataset…
We introduce a multi-layer networked compartmental $SIRS-V_o$ model that captures opinion dynamics, disease spread, risk perception, and self-interest vaccine-uptake behavior in an epidemic process. We characterize the target vaccination…
Community detection is a ubiquitous problem in applied network analysis, yet efficient techniques do not yet exist for all types of network data. Most techniques have been developed for undirected graphs, and very few exist that handle…
To investigate the impact of social groups on waiting behaviour of passengers at railway platforms a method to identify social groups through the monitoring of distances between pedestrians and the stability of those distances over time is…
One widely-existed state --``harmony with diversity" in which individuals freely express various viewpoints to sustain integration of social diversity, but at the same time shared values ensure social coherence, can be considered as the…
Social dynamics are shaped by each person's actions, as well as by collective trends that emerge when individuals are brought together. These latter kind of influences escape anyone's control. They are, instead, dominated by aggregate…