Limits of predictability in human mobility

Science

Volumn 327, Issue 5968, 2010, Pages 1018-1021

  Song, Chaoming ^a,b   Qu, Zehui ^a,b,c   Blumm, Nicholas ^a,b   Barabási, Albert László ^a,b  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN BEHAVIOR; MOBILITY; PREDICTION; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; TELECOMMUNICATION; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ENTROPY; MOBILE PHONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BEHAVIOR; CELLULAR PHONE; FORECASTING; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROBABILITY; TRAVEL;

EID: 77149139158     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1177170     Document Type: Article

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28. We thank M. Gonzales, P. Wang, J. Bagrow, and J. A. Aslam for discussions and comments on the manuscript. This work was supported by the James S. McDonnell Foundation 21st Century Initiative in Studying Complex Systems, NSF within the Information Technology Research (DMR-0426737) and IIS-0513650 programs, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency award HDTRA1-08-1-0027, and the Network Science Collaborative Technology Alliance sponsored by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory under agreement number W911NF-09-2-0053. Z.Q. was supported by a fellowship from the China Scholarship Council.