New human movement model can aid in studying epidemic outbreaks, public planning
Monday, April 27, 2009 - 10:42
in Mathematics & Economics
Researchers have developed a new statistical model that simulates human mobility patterns, mimicking the way people move over the course of a day, a month or longer. The model, developed by scientists at North Carolina State University and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), is the first to represent the regular movement patterns of humans using statistical data.