User Behavior Modeling and Mining: A Special Focus on the Spatial and Semantic Aspects of User Behavior

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite contributions to Information on the topic of user behavior modeling and mining, with a special focus on the spatial and semantic aspects of human behaviour.            

Human behaviour is complex, multi-level and multimodal. In addition, behaviour is shaped by the environment and context.   Modelling user behaviour at an aggregated level typically involves analysing human mobility through virtual or physical activities. 

Human physical mobility models can provide input to transportation modelling, urban planning, public health and population studies. Human virtual mobility models can help with data narration, interactive tool designs, social network analysis, and recommender systems. 

The techniques or approaches to model and analyse behaviour are varied. They may be multidisciplinary and include statistical models, agent-based approaches, machine learning and visualisation tools. Moreover, the modelling can be conducted at different levels of granularity, from raw traces to rich semantic ones.

This Special Issue welcomes submissions that provide new approaches and perspectives or introduce new challenges and tasks related to human behaviour modelling and mining, specifically considering the semantic and spatial aspects of human behaviour. Additionally, articles which provide an overview of the topics are welcome.

Dr. Cyril de Runz
Dr Gavin McArdle
Dr Nicolas Labroche
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Information is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1800 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.