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Network-Based Delineation of Health Service Areas: A Comparative Analysis of Community Detection Algorithms
Diego Pinheiro, Ryan Hartman, Erick Romero +2
A Health Service Area (HSA) is a group of geographic regions served by similar health care facilities. The delineation of HSAs plays a pivotal role in the characterization of healt…
Gender Patterns of Human Mobility in Colombia: Reexamining Ravenstein's Laws of Migration
Mariana Macedo, Laura Lotero, Alessio Cardillo +2
Public stakeholders implement several policies and regulations to tackle gender gaps, fostering the change in the cultural constructs associated with gender. One way to quantify if…
Characterizing the Social Interactions in the Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm
Lydia Taw, Nishant Gurrapadi, Mariana Macedo +4
Computational swarm intelligence consists of multiple artificial simple agents exchanging information while exploring a search space. Despite a rich literature in the field, with w…
Spatial concentration and temporal regularities in crime
Marcos Oliveira, Ronaldo Menezes
Though crime is linked to different socio-economic factors, it exhibits remarkable regularities regardless of cities' particularities. In this chapter, we consider two fundamental…
Uncovering the Social Interaction in Swarm Intelligence with Network Science
Marcos Oliveira, Diego Pinheiro, Mariana Macedo +2
Swarm intelligence is the collective behavior emerging in systems with locally interacting components. Because of their self-organization capabilities, swarm-based systems show ess…
Spatio-temporal variations in the urban rhythm: the travelling waves of crime
Marcos Oliveira, Eraldo Ribeiro, Carmelo Bastos-Filho +1
In the last decades, the notion that cities are in a state of equilibrium with a centralised organisation has given place to the viewpoint of cities in disequilibrium and organised…