Human dynamics: From human mobility to predictability

Albert László Barabási

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-23780-5_2

Human dynamics: From human mobility to predictability

Albert László Barabási^*

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Northeastern University
Harvard University

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A range of applications, from predicting the spread of human and electronic viruses to city planning and resource management in mobile communications, depend on our ability to understand human activity patterns. I will discuss recent effort to explore human activity patterns, using the mobility of individuals as a proxy. As an application, I will show that by measuring the entropy of each individual’s trajectory, we find can explore the underlying predictability of human mobility, raising fundamental questions on how predictable we really are. I will also discuss the interplay between human mobilty, social links, and the predictive power of data mining.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases - European Conference, ECML PKDD 2011, Proceedings
Editors	Dimitrios Gunopulos, Thomas Hofmann, Donato Malerba, Michalis Vazirgiannis
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	3
Number of pages	1
ISBN (Print)	9783642237799
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23780-5_2
State	Published - 2011
Externally published	Yes
Event	European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2011 - Athens, Greece Duration: 5 Sep 2011 → 9 Sep 2011

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	6911 LNAI
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2011
Country/Territory	Greece
City	Athens
Period	5/09/11 → 9/09/11

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SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

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Barabási, A. L. (2011). Human dynamics: From human mobility to predictability. In D. Gunopulos, T. Hofmann, D. Malerba, & M. Vazirgiannis (Eds.), Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases - European Conference, ECML PKDD 2011, Proceedings (pp. 3). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 6911 LNAI). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23780-5_2

Barabási, Albert László. / Human dynamics : From human mobility to predictability. Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases - European Conference, ECML PKDD 2011, Proceedings. editor / Dimitrios Gunopulos ; Thomas Hofmann ; Donato Malerba ; Michalis Vazirgiannis. Springer Verlag, 2011. pp. 3 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Barabási, AL 2011, Human dynamics: From human mobility to predictability. in D Gunopulos, T Hofmann, D Malerba & M Vazirgiannis (eds), Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases - European Conference, ECML PKDD 2011, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 6911 LNAI, Springer Verlag, pp. 3, European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2011, Athens, Greece, 5/09/11. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23780-5_2

Human dynamics: From human mobility to predictability. / Barabási, Albert László.
Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases - European Conference, ECML PKDD 2011, Proceedings. ed. / Dimitrios Gunopulos; Thomas Hofmann; Donato Malerba; Michalis Vazirgiannis. Springer Verlag, 2011. p. 3 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 6911 LNAI).

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Barabási AL. Human dynamics: From human mobility to predictability. In Gunopulos D, Hofmann T, Malerba D, Vazirgiannis M, editors, Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases - European Conference, ECML PKDD 2011, Proceedings. Springer Verlag. 2011. p. 3. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-23780-5_2

Human dynamics: From human mobility to predictability

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