Mobility and Geosocial Networks

Dear Colleagues,

Mobility and social networks are two key ingredients of human behavior. At the collective level, the derived spatial–temporal behavioral patterns help us to understand the underlying geographical environments.

Thanks to the power of social webs, people have found new ways to behave and communicate socially. Data, information or content are shared on the web in the form of texts, videos, images, blogs, etc. These can also be connected to one’s geographical location, in what is known as geosocial information and geosocial networks. In our Special Issue, we expect papers that will respond to the continuous evolution of the internet and web 2.0 technologies which facilitate the creation of dynamic content. Social networks with georeference can be helpful to handle information from different sources and provide user-oriented services.

All the aforementioned approaches are providing new effective tools to collect information about nature and society and their dynamic natural and social changes. Everything is enriched by methods developed in connection with Big Data and Spatial Big Data, with the help of which smart solutions are sought.

There are many areas where mobility and geosocial networks improve and refine existing solutions. One of them is geodesign, which works with social media geographic information (SMGI). In fact, authoritative information provided by national mapping organizations dealing with space and themes is extended by the time aspect and especially the user and their preferences, which can be communicated through information media via texts, images, audio, and video.

Inspiring Topics for the Special Issue:

• Human mobility patterns derived from big-geo data
• Cross-scale (inter-urban and intra-urban) human mobility models
• Long-term human mobility models
• Understanding human mobility patterns for sustainable development goals
• Human perceptions derived from social media and social networking data
• Understanding human perception patterns for Sustainable Development Goals
• Sustainability research supported by social networking services
• Spatially–temporally analytical methods for mobility and social networking data
• Interplay between human mobility and social networking
• Data quality issues in mobility and social networking studies
• Epidemic research with human mobility and social networking
• Disaster management from the perspective of human mobility and social networking
• Smart city studies of human mobility and social networking
• GeoAI enabled applications of human mobility and social networking

Prof. Dr. Milan Konecny
Prof. Dr. Yu Liu
Guest Editors

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