海量公交数据的人群画像算法

面向海量公交数据的人群画像对分析城市群体出行特点、交通态势等极具价值,但对数据的处理存在耗时高、质量低、解释难等问题。提出一种海量公交数据人群画像的系统化解决策略,基于PageRank算法筛选出经过重要站点的人群轨迹,极大减少目标人群的轨迹数据;提出轨迹文本化分析方法来提高人群画像的可解释性;分析确定基于余弦距离的K-means算法作为人群画像分类的聚类算法。该算法在3 000万乘客公交出行数据上的实验表明:提出的解决策略能够较为系统性地解决海量公交数据的人群画像问题,同时基于余弦距离的K-means算法的聚类效果最好且准确率约达80%。将人群画像及其轨迹使用Flow Map进行可视化展示,结果符合真实世界的人群行为特征。     

The effect of catastrophes on the strategic customer behavior in queueing systems

We consider the single server Markovian queue subject to Poisson generated catastrophes. Whenever a catastrophe occurs, all customers are forced to abandon the system, the server is rendered inoperative and an exponential repair time is set on. During the repair time new arrivals are allowed to join the system. We assume that the arriving customers decide whether to join the system or balk, based on a natural linear reward‐cost structure with two types of rewards: A (usual) service reward for those customers that receive service and a (compensation) failure reward for those customers that are forced to abandon the system due to a catastrophe. We study the strategic behavior of the customers regarding balking and derive the corresponding (Nash) equilibrium strategies for the observable and unobservable cases. We show that both types of strategic behavior may be optimal: to avoid the crowd or to follow it. The crucial factor that determines the type of customer behavior is the relative value of the service reward to the failure compensation. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2013     

基于心理调查和空间干预的人群心理仿真

突发危机事件中人群心理评估是当前危机管理急需解决的难点问题.由于突发危机事件群体心理数据采集的困难性和人群心理变化的复杂性等原因,传统方法很难准确评估群体心理效果.随着计算机科学的发展,建模仿真成为解决这类问题的有效手段.以复杂适应系统理论为指导,采用基于Agent的建模与仿真方法,研究外部事件刺激下群体的心理行为,构...     

‘Troops were then forced to fire’: British army crowd control in Palestine,November 1945

In November 1945, British army shooting during street riots and search operations in Palestine resulted in the death of 13 Jews and the injuring of dozens. The most costly in casualties caused by army fire during the whole Jewish insurgency, these incidents have nevertheless not received detailed attention in literature on the British army's counterinsurgency campaign in postwar Palestine. This article outlines British military use of firepower to control civilian crowds and the difficulties involved during these incidents, contributing to the debate on the army's principal of ‘minimum force’. It also highlights the serious problem of legitimizing opening of fire on unarmed protestors, epitomized in the army's fabricated account justifying shooting at a large crowd rushing a military cordon at Givat Hayim.     

The effect of crowd density on the expected number of casualties in a suicide attack

Utilizing elementary geometric and probability considerations, we estimate the effect of crowd blocking in suicide bombing events. It is shown that the effect is quite significant. Beyond a certain threshold, the expected number of casualties decreases with the number of people in the arena. The numerical results of our model are consistent with casualty data from suicide bombing events in Israel. Some operational insights are discussed. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2005.