Search results for: Fernando B. de Lima Neto
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Football (aka Soccer) is the most popular sport in the world. The popularity of the sport leads to several stories (some perhaps anecdotal) about supporters behaviors and to the emergence of rivalries such as the famous Barcelona-Real Madrid (in Spain). Little however has been done to characterize/profile online users' behaviors as football supporters and use them as an aggregate measure to club characterization...
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EPJ Data Science > 2015 > 4 > 1 > 1-14
In recent years, we have seen scientists attempt to model and explain human dynamics and in particular human movement. Many aspects of our complex life are affected by human movement such as disease spread and epidemics modeling, city planning, wireless network development, and disaster relief, to name a few. Given the myriad of applications, it is clear that a complete understanding of how people...
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Sociodemographic studies on human migration phenomena are mostly based on surveys and censuses, which significantly increases the research costs. This scenario becomes even worse when the study involves migration and social networks, which often lacks on representative data and consensually accepted concepts by demographers and sociologists. In this paper we propose a new multi-evolutionary agent...
