The scaling of human interactions with city size

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 11, Issue 98, 2014, Pages

  Schläpfer, Markus ^a,b   Bettencourt, Luís M A ^b   Grauwin, Sébastian ^a   Raschke, Mathias ^c   Claxton, Rob ^d   Smoreda, Zbigniew ^e   West, Geoffrey B ^b   Ratti, Carlo ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Raschke Software Engineering   (Germany)

^d BRITISH TELECOM   (United Kingdom)

^e ORANGE LABS   (France)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Human interactions; Mobile phone data; Networks; Urban scaling

Indexed keywords

BIOPHYSICS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS);

COMMUNICATION ACTIVITIES; CONTAGIOUS DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MODELS; HUMAN INTERACTIONS; MOBILE PHONE DATUM; NUMBER OF CONTACTS; UNDERLYING NETWORKS; URBAN SCALING;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; CITY; HUMAN; MOBILE PHONE; POPULATION SIZE; PORTUGAL; PROBABILITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; TELECOMMUNICATION; UNITED KINGDOM; URBAN AREA; URBAN POPULATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; POPULATION DENSITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; URBANIZATION;

CELL PHONES; CITIES; COMMUNICATION; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; PORTUGAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84904965868     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2013.0789     Document Type: Article

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