The digital world has a wealth of data, such as internet of things (IoT) data, business data,
health data, mobile data, urban data, security data, and many more, in the current age of the …

In this paper, we review some advances made recently in the study of mobile phone
datasets. This area of research has emerged a decade ago, with the increasing availability …

Human mobility impacts many aspects of a city, from its spatial structure,–to its response to
an epidemic,,–. It is also ultimately key to social interactions, innovation, and productivity …

The 2020 coronavirus pandemic caused countries across the world to implement measures
of social distancing to curb spreading of COVID-19. The large and sudden disruptions to …

The current outbreak of novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) poses an
unprecedented global health and economic threat to interconnected human societies. Until …

During the past few decades, technologies such as remote sensing, geographical
information systems, and global positioning systems have transformed the way the …

The study of socio-technical systems has been revolutionized by the unprecedented amount
of digital records that are constantly being produced by human activities such as accessing …

Driven by the challenges of rapid urbanization, cities are determined to implement advanced
socio-technological changes and transform into smarter cities. The success of such …

Despite the increasing importance of cities in human societies, our ability to understand
them scientifically and manage them in practice has remained limited. The greatest …

Although most of wealth and innovation have been the result of human interaction and
cooperation, we are not yet able to quantitatively predict the spatial distributions of three …