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Identifying the structural discontinuities of human interactions
Sebastian Grauwin, Michael Szell, Stanislav Sobolevsky +6
The idea of a hierarchical spatial organization of society lies at the core of seminal theories in human geography that have strongly influenced our understanding of social organiz…
Towards a comparative science of cities: using mobile traffic records in New York, London and Hong Kong
S. Grauwin, S. Sobolevsky, S. Moritz +2
This chapter examines the possibility to analyze and compare human activities in an urban environment based on the detection of mobile phone usage patterns. Thanks to an unpreceden…
Mining Urban Performance: Scale-Independent Classification of Cities Based on Individual Economic Transactions
Stanislav Sobolevsky, Izabela Sitko, Sebastian Grauwin +4
Intensive development of urban systems creates a number of challenges for urban planners and policy makers in order to maintain sustainable growth. Running efficient urban policies…
Contraction of online response to major events
Michael Szell, Sebastian Grauwin, Carlo Ratti
Quantifying regularities in behavioral dynamics is of crucial interest for understanding collective social events such as panics or political revolutions. With the widespread use o…
The scaling of human interactions with city size
Markus Schläpfer, Luis M. A. Bettencourt, Sebastian Grauwin +5
The size of cities is known to play a fundamental role in social and economic life. Yet, its relation to the structure of the underlying network of human interactions has not been…
Complex Systems Science: Dreams of Universality, Reality of Interdisciplinarity
Sebastian Grauwin, Guillaume Beslon, Eric Fleury +4
Using a large database (~ 215 000 records) of relevant articles, we empirically study the "complex systems" field and its claims to find universal principles applying to systems in…