Historically, infectious diseases caused considerable damage to human societies, and they
continue to do so today. To help reduce their impact, mathematical models of disease …

Crowd and evacuation management have been active areas of research and study in the
recent past. Various developments continue to take place in the process of efficient …

Given their importance in sha** social networks and determining how information or
transmissible diseases propagate in a population, interactions between individuals are the …

Technological advances have led to a strong increase in the number of data collection
efforts aimed at measuring co-presence of individuals at different spatial resolutions. It is …

The availability of new data sources on human mobility is opening new avenues for
investigating the interplay of social networks, human mobility and dynamical processes such …

Background Digital networks, mobile devices, and the possibility of mining the ever-
increasing amount of digital traces that we leave behind in our daily activities are changing …

Background Little quantitative information is available on the mixing patterns of children in
school environments. Describing and understanding contacts between children at school …

This book presents mathematical models and numerical simulations of crowd dynamics. The
core topic is the development of a new multiscale paradigm, which bridges the microscopic …

Novel methods and tools are being developed to explore the significance of the new types of
user-related spatiotemporal data. This approach helps uncover the presence and …

Buildings and urban spaces increasingly incorporate artificial intelligence and new forms of
interactivity, raising a wide span of research questions about the future of human …