Human mobility is a key factor in spatial disease dynamics and related phenomena. In computational models host mobility is typically modeled by diffusion in space or on metapolulation networks. Alternatively, an effective force of infection across distance has been introduced to capture spatial dispersal implicitly. Both approaches do not account for important aspects of natural human mobility,...

In the last 10 years, new paradigms for wireless networks based on human mobility have gained the attention of the research community. These paradigms, usually referred to as Pocket Switched Networks or Delay Tolerant Networks, jointly exploit human mobility and store-and-forward communications to improve the connectivity in sparse or isolated networks. Clearly, understanding the human mobility...

Abstract Human mobility, contact patterns, and their interplay are key aspects of our social behavior that shape the spread infectious diseases across different regions. In light new evidence data sets about these two elements, epidemic models should be refined to incorporate both heterogeneity human contacts complexity mobility patterns. Here, we propose a theoretical framework allows accommod...

Human mobility is a core component of human behavior and its quantification critical for understanding impact on infectious disease transmission, traffic forecasting, access to resources care, intervention strategies, migratory flows. When data are limited, spatial interaction models have been widely used estimate travel, but not extensively validated in low- middle-income settings. Geographic,...