Mobility profiling: Identifying scouters in the crowd

Licia Amichi, Aline C. Viana, Mark Crovella, Antonio F. Loureiro

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Abstract

The prediction of individuals' dynamics has attracted significant community attention and has implication for many fields: e.g. epidemic spreading, urban planning, recommendation systems. Current prediction models, however, are unable to capture uncertainties in the mobility behavior of individuals, and consequently, suffer from the inability to predict visits to new places. This is due to the fact that current models are oblivious to the exploration aspect of human behavior. This paper contributes better understanding of this aspect and presents a new strategy for identifying exploration profiles of a population. Our strategy captures spatiotemporal properties of visits - i.e. a known or new location (spatial) as well as a recurrent and intermittent visit (temporal) - and classifies individuals as scouters (i.e., extreme explorers), routineers (i.e., extreme returners), or regulars (i.e., with a medium behavior). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work profiling spatiotemporal exploration of individuals in a simple and easy-to-implement way, with the potential to benefit services relying on mobility prediction.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCoNEXT 2019 Companion - Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, Part of CoNEXT 2019
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages9-11
Number of pages3
ISBN (Electronic)9781450370066
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 9 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event15th International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, CoNEXT 2019 - Part of CoNEXT 2019 - Orlando, United States
Duration: Dec 9 2019Dec 12 2019

Publication series

NameCoNEXT 2019 Companion - Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, Part of CoNEXT 2019

Conference

Conference15th International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, CoNEXT 2019 - Part of CoNEXT 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityOrlando
Period12/9/1912/12/19

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