Mobility in an online world

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Participants

• Michael Szell
• Giovanni Petri
• Kang Zhao
• Drew Levin

Intro

Universe

The topology of this online world can be expressed as a network, where sectors are nodes (placed on a cartesian grid) and wormholes are links between nearby sectors. A second type of link, the X-hole, links distant sectors, thus giving the universe a small-world property. Players live and move in this environment. For a fixed time for each day and each of the 10^4-10^5 players, we know their locations. (All data is fully anonymized!)

Tasks

• Extract data of universe
• Bring topology data in network format (adjacency list / sparse matrix)
• Visualize network, e.g. in PAJEK
• Extract mobility data of players
• Bring them in reasonable format (time-series). E.g. Time-series of daily hops.
• Analyze data
• Formulate research questions
• Find literature on mobility, etc.
• Write paper (tex)

Research Questions

to do

Meetings

• June 10, 5 P.M., lecture room