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Showing papers on "Vertical mobility published in 2009"


Proceedings Article
24 Jul 2009
TL;DR: This paper aims to connect specific features of single individual dynamics to the overall evolution of the social community in the true thread of the Palm calculus philosophy with a large mobility track dataset expressly collected with this objective.
Abstract: We present a sensitivity study of a wait and chase scheme introduced in a previous work to model the contact times between people belonging to a social community. The membership presupposes that, besides purely occasional encounters, people are motivated to meet other members of the community, while the social character of the latter makes each person met an equivalent target. This calls for a mobility in the family of Levy jumps alternating a wandering period within a limited environment --waiting phase --with jumping to a new site constituting the target of a chase phase. In this paper we aim to connect specific features of single individual dynamics to the overall evolution of the social community in the true thread of the Palm calculus philosophy. We base this study on a large mobility track dataset expressly collected with this objective.

1 citations


01 Jan 2009
TL;DR: In this paper, the professional mobility is considered through two aspects: the first being a vertical one as an ability to realize a functional of both low and high levels effectively (the methodist realizes the functional as the director of the kindergarten, the educator responsible for organizing the children's work in the group); the second a horizontal one is a ability to change occupation according to the changed conditions without any psychological aftereffects, to take in a new social niche.
Abstract: The professional mobility is considered through two aspects: the first being a vertical one as an ability to realize a functional of both low and high levels effectively (the methodist realizes the functional as the director of the kindergarten, the educator responsible for organizing the children's work in the group); the second a horizontal one is an ability to change occupation according to the changed conditions without any psychological aftereffects, to take in a new social niche.

1 citations