Modelling COVID-19 transmission in supermarkets using an agent-based model

F Ying, N O'Clery - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in early March 2020, supermarkets around the world have
implemented different policies to reduce the virus transmission in stores to protect both …

Spatial applications of topological data analysis: Cities, snowflakes, random structures, and spiders spinning under the influence

M Feng, MA Porter - Physical Review Research, 2020 - APS
Spatial networks are ubiquitous in social, geographical, physical, and biological
applications. To understand the large-scale structure of networks, it is important to develop …

How risky is it to visit a supermarket during the pandemic?

AA Tsukanov, AM Senjkevich, MV Fedorov… - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
We performed large-scale numerical simulations using a composite model to investigate the
infection spread in a supermarket during a pandemic. The model is composed of the social …

Using agent-based simulation to assess disease prevention measures during pandemics

Y Tong, C King, Y Hu - Chinese Physics B, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Despite the growing interest in macroscopic epidemiological models to deal with threats
posed by pandemics such as COVID-19, little has been done regarding the assessment of …

Simulating the effect of measurement errors on pedestrian destination choice model calibration

C King, O Koltsova, NWF Bode - Transportmetrica A: transport …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Accurately calibrated pedestrian destination choice models help explain and predict foot
traffic in public places by describing how individuals choose locations to visit. Model …

The impact of mobile social app usage on offline shopping store visits

X Cui, Y Sun, Y Chen, B Wu - Journal of Interactive Marketing, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This research is a first empirical investigation into the effect of mobile social app usage on
consumers' decisions to visit offline stores and how such an effect varies across consumers …

Spatial distributions of restaurants emerging from pedestrian behavior and online information sharing

JH Lee, J Jo, JW Kim, K Lee, MY Choi - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics …, 2022 - Elsevier
We analyze the spatial distributions of restaurants in Seoul to examine the effects of the
proximity to a transportation system as well as online information sharing on urban living …

Minimizing Congestion in Single-Source, Single-Sink Queueing Networks

F Ying, AOG Wallis, MA Porter, SD Howison… - SIAM Journal on Applied …, 2023 - SIAM
Motivated by the modeling of customer mobility and congestion in supermarkets, we study
queueing networks with a single source and a single sink. We assume that walkers traverse …

Network models of spatial interactions, human mobility and navigation ability

R Leal Cervantes - 2023 - ora.ox.ac.uk
Networks provide a useful mathematical model for systems that are composed of agents,
also called nodes, that interact in a pairwise fashion. Inside a spatial network, nodes are …

Towards a Reference Database for Pedestrian Destination Choice Model Development

C King, N Bode - Collective Dynamics, 2022 - collective-dynamics.eu
The move towards publishing research data openly has led to the formation of reference
databases in many fields. The benefits of such resources are numerous, particularly in the …