3 papers
cs.SI2025
A Relational Model of Neighborhood Mobility: The Role of Amenities and Cultural Alignment
Thiago H Silva, Daniel Silver, Gustavo Santos +1
Why are some neighborhoods strongly connected while others remain isolated? Although standard explanations focus on demographics, economics, and geography, movement across the city…
cs.IR2025
CityHood: An Explainable Travel Recommender System for Cities and Neighborhoods
Gustavo H Santos, Myriam Delgado, Thiago H Silva
We present CityHood, an interactive and explainable recommendation system that suggests cities and neighborhoods based on users' areas of interest. The system models user interests…
cs.SI2025
Interest Networks (iNETs) for Cities: Cross-Platform Insights and Urban Behavior Explanations
Gustavo H. Santos, Myriam Delgado, Thiago H. Silva
Location-Based Social Networks (LBSNs) provide a rich foundation for modeling urban behavior through iNETs (Interest Networks), which capture how user interests are distributed thr…