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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…
Uncovering the role of spatial constraints in the differences and similarities between physical and virtual mobility
Surendra Hazarie, Hugo Barbosa, Adam Frank +2
The recent availability of digital traces from Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) has facilitated the study of both individual- and population-level movement with un…
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…