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Mobile Money: Understanding and Predicting its Adoption and Use in a Developing Economy
Simone Centellegher, Giovanna Miritello, Daniel Villatoro +3
Access to financial institutions is difficult in developing economies and especially for the poor. However, the widespread adoption of mobile phones has enabled the development of…
Urban Swarms: A new approach for autonomous waste management
Antonio Luca Alfeo, Eduardo Castelló Ferrer, Yago Lizarribar Carrillo +9
Modern cities are growing ecosystems that face new challenges due to the increasing population demands. One of the many problems they face nowadays is waste management, which has b…
Weak nodes detection in urban transport systems: Planning for resilience in Singapore
Michele Ferretti, Gianni Barlacchi, Luca Pappalardo +2
The availability of massive data-sets describing human mobility offers the possibility to design simulation tools to monitor and improve the resilience of transport systems in resp…
The economic value of neighborhoods: Predicting real estate prices from the urban environment
Marco De Nadai, Bruno Lepri
Housing costs have a significant impact on individuals, families, businesses, and governments. Recently, online companies such as Zillow have developed proprietary systems that pro…
Is social capital associated with synchronization in human communication? An analysis of Italian call records and measures of civic engagement
Marco Mamei, Francesca Pancotto, Marco De Nadai +4
Social capital has been studied in economics, sociology and political science as one of the key elements that promote the development of modern societies. It can be defined as the…
Modeling Taxi Drivers' Behaviour for the Next Destination Prediction
Alberto Rossi, Gianni Barlacchi, Monica Bianchini +1
In this paper, we study how to model taxi drivers' behaviour and geographical information for an interesting and challenging task: the next destination prediction in a taxi journey…