Alasdair Turner wrote:
> Very nice paper, Bin. I've been thinking for a while that PageRank
> would be a good measure to apply, and you've done it already and by
> the looks of things very thoroughly.
>
> If you are preparing future versions, there is an obvious comparison
> with "choice" or "betweenness" that I think it would be worth spending
> more time exploring in the paper. Results are published by Hillier
> and Iida in the paper you reference -- you could simply add them to
> your table.
A good point, Alasdair. As you can see, I did not use angle analysis.
Betweenness has no correlation to movement at all. But Hillier's COSIT
paper says opposite if use of angle analysis.
>
> Also, make sure you have a look at:
>
> Penn, A, Dalton, N, 1994, "The architecture of society: Stochastic
> simulation of urban movement", in Simulating Societies: The Computer
> Simulation of Social Phenomena Eds N Gilbert, J Doran (UCL Press,
> London) pp 85--125.
>
> This paper has random walker agents moving around Barnsbury! Again
> there are similarities worth exploring.
Yes, indeed, I will have a fresh look again.
>
> Well done,
>
> Alasdair
>
> p.s. your list "alternative" representations misses out VGA! ;-)
surely worth while a mention in the paper.
Cheers.
Bin
>
> Bin Jiang wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> We have applied PageRank computation to London axial map, and found
>> that the weighted PageRank scores are significantly correlated to
>> human movement. In addition, we found that the London axial map shows
>> both small world and scale free structures. Based on the findings, we
>> provide a never-get-stuck-and-tired random walker to justify our
>> findings. I welcome your comments on the paper
>> http://arxiv.org/ftp/physics/papers/0612/0612011.pdf
>>
>> Thanks and cheers.
>>
>> Bin
>>
>
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