Extracting significant mobile phone interaction patterns based on community structures

M Ghahramani, MC Zhou… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2018ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile phones have emerged as an essential part of people's lives. The data produced from
them can be utilized to derive the spatio-temporal information of their users' whereabouts.
We can obtain a rich data set of human activities, interactions, social relationships, and
mobility. Hence, it has been possible to explore these information sources with applications
ranging from disaster management to disease epidemiology. In this paper, we have focused
on the use of call detail records to explore and interpret patterns embedded in interaction …
Mobile phones have emerged as an essential part of people's lives. The data produced from them can be utilized to derive the spatio-temporal information of their users' whereabouts. We can obtain a rich data set of human activities, interactions, social relationships, and mobility. Hence, it has been possible to explore these information sources with applications ranging from disaster management to disease epidemiology. In this paper, we have focused on the use of call detail records to explore and interpret patterns embedded in interaction flows of people through their mobile phone calls. To do so, we consider the geographical context of subscribers/celltowers to discover structures of spatio-temporal interactions and communities' patterns in Macau. We have explored the inter and intra-polygon interaction flows. The results suggest that subscribers tend to communicate within a spatial-proximity community. In order to delineate relatively contiguous objects with similar attribute values, we have implemented an efficient hierarchical clustering approach. By identifying key objects and their close associates and exploring their communication patterns, we can detect shared interests and dominant interactions that influence societal patterns. Such insight is useful for resource optimization in network planning, content distribution, and urban planning.
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