Network-based predictions of retail store commercial categories and optimal locations
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Network-based predictions of retail store commercial categories and optimal locations.
I study the spatial organization of retail commercial activities. These are organized in a network comprising "antilinks," i.e., links of negative weight. From pure location data, network analysis leads to a community structure that closely follows the commercial classification of the U.S. Department of Labor. The interaction network allows one to build a "quality" index of optimal location nic...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review E
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1539-3755,1550-2376
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.74.035101