The Urban Nexus Approach for Analyzing Mobility in the Smart City: Towards the Identification of City Users Networking

We present an interdisciplinary approach that makes possible to learn how citizens live in the city by the means of mobile social media data, that is, volunteered geographical information provided by the inhabitants through social media and mobile apps, by adopting a new reticular approach to spatia...

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Published inMobile information systems Vol. 2018; no. 2018; pp. 1 - 17
Main Authors Psaila, Giuseppe, Gotti, Kevin, Cortesi, Nicola, Burini, Federica
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cairo, Egypt Hindawi Publishing Corporation 01.01.2018
Hindawi
Hindawi Limited
Subjects
Applications programs
Digital media
Mobile computing
Smart cities
Social networks
Spatial analysis
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Summary:We present an interdisciplinary approach that makes possible to learn how citizens live in the city by the means of mobile social media data, that is, volunteered geographical information provided by the inhabitants through social media and mobile apps, by adopting a new reticular approach to spatial analysis. In particular, we present the general notions as background of our work, an investigation methodology to apply whenever such an analysis task must be performed, and a digital environment of tools and frameworks to support the methodology.
ISSN:1574-017X
1875-905X
DOI:10.1155/2018/6294872