Where to catch ‘em all? – a geographic analysis of Pokémon Go locations

Gotta (efficiently) catch them all: Pokémon GO meets Orienteering Problems

In this paper a new routing problem referred to as the Generalized Clustered Orienteering Problem (GCOP) is studied. The problem is motivated by the mobile phone game Pokémon GO, an augmented reality game for mobile devices holding a record-breaking reception: within the first month of its release, more than 100 million users have installed the game on their device. The game’s immense popularit...

Pokémon GO Forensics: An Android Application Analysis

As the geolocation capabilities of smartphones continue to improve, developers have continued to create more innovative applications that rely on this location information for their primary function. This can be seen with Niantic’s release of Pokémon GO, which is a massively multiplayer online role playing and augmented reality game. This game became immensely popular within just a few days of ...

Where Did All The Bytes Go?

Configuring, installing, re-configuring, and re-installing disk drives can be time consuming. Understanding the physical disk and how UNIX file systems are laid out on disk drives can not only help an administrator troubleshoot problems, but can allow him/her to maximize the amount of disk space available. Standard formatting utilities tend to configure disks with similar geometry identically. ...

Where Did All the Collaborators Go?

In the wake of World War II there was a desire to deal quickly with war criminals, collaborators, and traitors so that people could get on with their lives again. In practice, especially in eastern Europe, this task was not so easy, as many had fled with the German occupants or at least had been displaced due to the war, and some were even recruited into those forces fighting against Nazi Germa...

Where did all the fun go?