Inferring nonwork travel semantics and revealing the nonlinear relationships with the community built environment

B Zhao, M Deng, Y Shi - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2023 - Elsevier
The relationship between the built environment and nonwork travels reveals potential supply-
demand status between urban functional facilities and diverse living travels, which provide …

A two-level random forest model for predicting the population distributions of urban functional zones: A case study in Changsha, China

W Yang, X Wan, M Liu, D Zheng, H Liu - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2023 - Elsevier
Understanding population density at a fine spatial scale is beneficial for urban management
and planning. Existing machine learning methods have been widely used to predict the …

Pollution level, ecological risk assessment and vertical distribution pattern analysis of heavy metals in the tailings dam of an abandon Lead–Zinc mine

Q Wang, J Cai, F Gao, Z Li, M Zhang - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Tailings dams in mining areas frequently experience the phenomenon of haphazard
dumping and stacking of a large amount of tailings waste. Under the influence of surface …

Detecting spatial flow outliers in the presence of spatial autocorrelation

J Cai, MP Kwan - Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 2022 - Elsevier
Spatial flow outlier (SFO) detection aims to discover spatial flows whose non-spatial attribute
values are significantly different from their neighborhoods. Different from spatial flow …

Associating street crime incidences with geographical environment in space using a zero-inflated negative binomial regression model

L Luo, M Deng, Y Shi, S Gao, B Liu - Cities, 2022 - Elsevier
Urban geographical environments play an important role in inducing the occurrences of
street crimes, so they have raised attention regarding the relationships between …

Understanding Social Inequality in Individual Perceived Exposures to Air Pollution in Residential and Visited Neighborhoods: A Study Using Association Rule Mining

J Cai, MP Kwan - Annals of the American Association of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Using individual-level data collected from two communities in Hong Kong, this study
proposes a significant association rule mining method to identify the complex associations …

Flow colocation quotient: Measuring bivariate spatial association for flow data

M Zhou, M Yang, Z Chen - Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 2023 - Elsevier
Bivariate association analyses of spatial flows can reveal the spatial dependence of two
types of spatial flows. However, existing studies involving the detection of the bivariate …

Spatially adaptive machine learning models for predicting water quality in Hong Kong

Q Wang, Z Li, J Cai, M Zhang, Z Liu, Y Xu, R Li - Journal of Hydrology, 2023 - Elsevier
Water quality prediction in the spatially heterogeneous environment is challenging as the
importance of water quality parameters (WQPs) and the performance of prediction models …

Do locations of employment and residence influence whether people use virtual social networks? A case study of residents in Wuhan, China

H Deng, Q Niu, L Wu - ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2023 - mdpi.com
High-speed information technology development has made virtual social networking (VSN)
a social interaction trend. Studies have been carried out to investigate the spatial clustering …

Mining significant local spatial association rules for multi-category point data

F Cai, J Chen, T Chen, B Zhang, W Fan - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
Spatial association rule mining can reveal the inherent laws of spatial object
interdependence and is an important part of spatial data mining. Most of the existing …