The elliptic model for communication fluxes

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2014/04/P04022zbMATH Open1456.91095arXiv1310.0163WikidataQ60726510 ScholiaQ60726510MaRDI QIDQ3301928FDOQ3301928

Authors: Carlos Herrera-Yagüe, Christian Schneider, Z. Smoreda, T. Couronné, Pedro J. Zufiria, Marta C. González 

Publication date: 11 August 2020

Published in: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper, a model (called the elliptic model) is proposed to estimate the number of social ties between two locations using population data in a similar manner to how transportation research deals with trips. To overcome the asymmetry of transportation models, the new model considers that the number of relationships between two locations is inversely proportional to the population in the ellipse whose foci are in these two locations. The elliptic model is evaluated by considering the anonymous communications patterns of 25 million users from three different countries, where a location has been assigned to each user based on their most used phone tower or billing zip code. With this information, spatial social networks are built at three levels of resolution: tower, city and region for each of the three countries. The elliptic model achieves a similar performance when predicting communication fluxes as transportation models do when predicting trips. This shows that human relationships are influenced at least as much by geography as is human mobility.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.0163

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Models of societies, social and urban evolution (91D10) Social networks; opinion dynamics (91D30)

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