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20142026
most citedSpatial Structure of City Population Growth

68 citations · 245 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Revisiting the non-equilibrium phase transitions of the continuous-trait Axelrod model

Sandro M. Reia, Paulo R. A. Campos, José F. Fontanari

We investigate the non-equilibrium phase transitions of the continuous-trait Axelrod model, an agent-based framework where individual culture is represented by a vector of cont…

physics.soc-ph2026

SF-LIFE: A Large-Scale Simulated Movement Dataset for the San Francisco Bay Area

Chanuka Algama, Taylor Anderson, Henrique Ferraz de Arruda +14

We introduce SF-LIFE, a large-scale simulated movement dataset designed to accelerate research in transportation, mobility, and machine learning. The dataset contains 3,024,000,000…

physics.soc-ph2026

Towards Universal Urban Patterns-of-Life Simulation

Sandro M. Reia, Henrique F. de Arruda, Shiyang Ruan +3

Understanding urban mobility requires models that capture how people interact with and navigate the built environment. We present a scalable, generalizable agent-based framework in…

physics.soc-ph2025★ 1 cited

Non-equilibrium phase transition and cultural drift in the continuous-trait Axelrod model

Paulo R. A. Campos, Sandro M. Reia, José F. Fontanari

The standard Axelrod model of cultural dissemination, based on discrete cultural traits, exhibits a non-equilibrium phase transition but is inherently limited by its inability to c…

cs.SI2024

Extracting the U.S. building types from OpenStreetMap data

Henrique F. de Arruda, Sandro M. Reia, Shiyang Ruan +4

Building type information is crucial for population estimation, traffic planning, urban planning, and emergency response applications. Although essential, such data is often not re…

physics.soc-ph2024

Function and form of U.S. cities

Sandro M. Reia, Taylor Anderson, Henrique F. Arruda +4

The relationship between urban form and function is a complex challenge that can be examined from multiple perspectives. In this study, we propose a method to characterize the urba…

physics.soc-ph2023

Cultural heterogeneity constrains diffusion of innovations

Aruane M. Pineda, Sandro M. Reia, Colm Connaughton +2

Rogers' diffusion of innovations theory asserts that cultural similarity among individuals plays a crucial role in the acceptance of an innovation in a community. However, most stu…

cs.CY2023★ 1 cited

Supporting Post-disaster Recovery with Agent-based Modeling in Multilayer Socio-physical Networks

Jiawei Xue, Sangung Park, Washim Uddin Mondal +3

The examination of post-disaster recovery (PDR) in a socio-physical system enables us to elucidate the complex relationships between humans and infrastructures. Although existing s…

physics.soc-ph2022★ 68 cited

Spatial Structure of City Population Growth

Sandro M. Reia, P. Suresh C. Rao, Marc Barthelemy +1

We show here that population growth, resolved at the county level, is spatially heterogeneous both among and within the U.S. metropolitan statistical areas. Our analysis of data fo…

cs.CL2021★ 6 cited

A pattern recognition approach for distinguishing between prose and poetry

Henrique F. de Arruda, Sandro M. Reia, Filipi N. Silva +2

Poetry and prose are written artistic expressions that help us to appreciate the reality we live. Each of these styles has its own set of subjective properties, such as rhyme and r…

cs.DL2021

Long-term Scientific Impact Revisited

Sandro M. Reia, José F. Fontanari

Citation based measures are widely used as quantitative proxies for subjective factors such as the importance of a paper or even the worth of individual researchers. Here we analyz…

cs.DL2020★ 6 cited

A SIR epidemic model for citation dynamics

Sandro M. Reia, José F. Fontanari

The study of citations in the scientific literature crosses the boundaries between the traditional branches of science and stands on its own as a most profitable research field dub…

stat.AP2020★ 3 cited

Wisdom of crowds: much ado about nothing

Sandro M. Reia, José F. Fontanari

The puzzling idea that the combination of independent estimates of the magnitude of a quantity results in a very accurate prediction, which is superior to any or, at least, to most…

cs.MA2019★ 6 cited

The surprising little effectiveness of cooperative algorithms in parallel problem solving

Sandro M. Reia, Larissa F. Aquino, José F. Fontanari

Biological and cultural inspired optimization algorithms are nowadays part of the basic toolkit of a great many research domains. By mimicking processes in nature and animal societ…

physics.soc-ph2019★ 11 cited

Comfort-driven mobility produces spatial fragmentation in Axelrod's model

Sandro M. Reia, Paulo F. Gomes, José F. Fontanari

Axelrod's model for the dissemination of culture combines two key ingredients of social dynamics: social influence, through which people become more similar when they interact, and…

cs.MA2019★ 6 cited

Policies for allocation of information in task-oriented groups: elitism and egalitarianism outperform welfarism

Sandro M. Reia, Paulo F. Gomes, José F. Fontanari

Communication or influence networks are probably the most controllable of all factors that are known to impact on the problem-solving capability of task-forces. In the case connect…

cs.MA2018★ 3 cited

Individual decision making in task-oriented groups

Sandro M. Reia, Paulo F. Gomes, José F. Fontanari

The strategies adopted by individuals to select relevant information to pass on are central to understanding problem solving by groups. Here we use agent-based simulations to revis…

cs.MA2018★ 43 cited

Agent-based models of collective intelligence

Sandro M. Reia, André C. Amado, José F. Fontanari

Collective or group intelligence is manifested in the fact that a team of cooperating agents can solve problems more efficiently than when those agents work in isolation. Although…

physics.soc-ph2018★ 16 cited

Mobility helps problem-solving systems to avoid Groupthink

Paulo F. Gomes, Sandro M. Reia, Francisco A. Rodrigues +1

Groupthink occurs when everyone in a group starts thinking alike, as when people put unlimited faith in a leader. Avoiding this phenomenon is a ubiquitous challenge to problem-solv…

physics.soc-ph2016★ 15 cited

Impact of centrality on cooperative processes

Sandro M. Reia, Sebastian Herrmann, José F. Fontanari

The solution of today's complex problems requires the grouping of task forces whose members are usually connected remotely over long physical distances and different time zones. He…

cond-mat.stat-mech2016★ 16 cited

Effect of long-range interactions on the phase transition of Axelrod's model

Sandro M. Reia, José F. Fontanari

Axelrod's model with cultural features, where each feature can assume states drawn from a Poisson distribution of parameter , exhibits a continuous nonequilibrium phas…

cs.SI2016★ 16 cited

Effect of group organization on the performance of cooperative processes

Sandro M. Reia, José F. Fontanari

Problem-solving competence at group level is influenced by the structure of the social networks and so it may shed light on the organization patterns of gregarious animals. Here we…

nlin.CG2015★ 5 cited

Nonsynchronous updating in the multiverse of cellular automata

Sandro M. Reia, Osame Kinouchi

In this paper we study updating effects on cellular automata rule space. We consider a subset of 6144 order-3 automata from the space of 262144 bi-dimensional outer-totalistic rule…

cond-mat.stat-mech2014★ 23 cited

Conway's game of life is a near-critical metastable state in the multiverse of cellular automata

Sandro Martinelli Reia, Osame Kinouchi

Conway's cellular automaton Game of LIFE has been conjectured to be a critical (or quasicritical) dynamical system. This criticality is generally seen as a continuous order-disorde…