Recent decades have seen a rise in the use of physics methods to study different societal
phenomena. This development has been due to physicists venturing outside of their …

Community detection is one of the popular research topics in the field of complex networks
analysis. It aims to identify communities, represented as cohesive subgroups or clusters …

Containing the spread of crime in urban societies remains a major challenge. Empirical
evidence suggests that, if left unchecked, crimes may be recurrent and proliferate. On the …

Community structure in complex networks has been proven to be valuable in a variety of
fields, such as biology, social media, health, etc. Researchers have investigated a significant …

Given a social network of users with non-uniform selection cost, and a fixed budget, which
nodes should be chosen for initial activation to maximize the influence in the network, such …

Urban safety and security play a crucial role in improving life quality of citizen and the
sustainable development of urban. Traditional urban crime research focused on leveraging …

Understanding the evolving discipline of crime situations is a long-standing but significant
problem. Former methods prefer the stochastic modeling of the crime phenomenon in …

Spatial clustering deals with the unsupervised grouping of places into clusters and finds
important applications in urban planning and marketing. Current spatial clustering models …

In recent years, complex networks have become increasingly difficult to detect effectively
with the rapid development of networks. On the one hand, the scale of the network has …

Research has increasingly moved toward a consensus that violent crime declines as
neighborhoods gentrify, yet some studies find the direction of this relationship varies by type …