Recent decades have seen a rise in the use of physics methods to study different societal
phenomena. This development has been due to physicists venturing outside of their …

Well-being is an important value for people's lives, and it could be considered as an index of
societal progress. Researchers have suggested two main approaches for the overall …

How does Internet use affect well-being? This paper presents a survey of the literature
investigating this question, and it develops a framework to analyze both positive effects and …

Spatiotemporal data mining (STDM) discovers useful patterns from the dynamic interplay
between space and time. Several available surveys capture STDM advances and report a …

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 …

The security of a community is its topmost priority; hence, governments must take proper
actions to reduce the crime rate. Consequently, the application of artificial intelligence (AI) in …

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 …

This book explores how predictive policing transforms police work. Police departments
around the world have started to use data-driven applications to produce crime forecasts …

This paper investigates machine-learning-based crime prediction. In this work, Vancouver
crime data for the last 15 years is analyzed using two different data-processing approaches …

The Death and Life of Great American Cities was written in 1961 and is now one of the most
influential book in city planning. In it, Jane Jacobs proposed four conditions that promote life …