Human urban mobility in location-based social networks : analysis, models and applications
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powered by The constellations of the Milky Way have been guiding our ancestors for thousands of years. The stars have helped us to navigate, govern the seas and discover new lands. In the rise of the 21st century discovery, communication and navigation are still prominent to the advancement of our kind. The new means to humanity’s eternal goals are smartphone devices powered with sensors, advanced software and cloud supported internet connectivity. A significant evolution in the past four years has been the rise of location-based social networks. Systems like Foursquare enable the crowdsourcing of unprecedented amounts and layers of information describing the location, activity and communication traits of millions of mobile users at a global scale. Not only they promise the large scale evaluation of past theories in fields of urban transport, social science and geography, but they offer the opportunity for novel applications for the computer sciences.In the era of the mobile web, the stars are the mobile users.
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تاریخ انتشار 2013