Research Article

Recognition of Functional Areas Based on Call Detail Records and Point of Interest Data

Table 4

Parameter representation.

NameMeaning

Denotes a 5 min time slot throughout the day,
is the number of GASs
Denotes the day of a month, in this paper
Denotes weekday or weekend, , 1 for weekday and 2 for weekend
 = {Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday},  = {Saturday, Sunday},
Seven days of the week,
Matrix of user numbers in the nth GAS
Matrix of communication numbers in the nth GAS
Number of mobile communication base stations in a certain GAS
Number of users in the nth GAS
Number of communications in the nth GAS, which is the cth mobile communication base station in the th 5 min interval of day
Area of nth GAS
Number of weekdays or weekends in a month, , in this paper
Matrixes of average user numbers of GASs on a weekday or weekend
Matrixes of average communication numbers of GASs on a weekday or weekend
Matrixes of CAIs
Matrixes of UDs
Signature of GASs based on the NCAs on weekday or weekend
Signature of GASs based on the CAIs on weekday or weekend
Signature of GASs based on the UDs on weekday or weekend
Intracluster distances
Intercluster distances
Validity index
Set of signatures that belong to the cluster defined by a centroid
Signature, ,
KDE function at spatial position s
Distance attenuation threshold
Number of elements for which the distance is less than or equal to from location
Sample element
Spatial weighting function
Type of cluster;
Identification index of type
Actual function area of a cluster , km2
Area of detecting function, which is the area of the GAS containing , km2