Users Location Prediction in Location-based Social Networks

Abstract

The wealth of user-generated data in Location-Based Social Networks (LBSNs) has opened new opportunities for researchers to model and understand human mobile behaviour, including predicting where they are most likely to check-in next. In this paper, we propose a model that leverages the use of Global Temporal Preferences and Spatial Correlation, to help make predictions for a previously unseen user - the so-called cold-start problem. The experimental results on a real-world LBSN dataset show that our proposed model outperforms the state-of-the-art approaches on prediction accuracy and can alleviate the cold-start problem.

Contributors

Jarana Manotumruksa

Conference

Publication date: September 2015

Publication date (Print): September 2015

Pages: 41-44

Affiliations

University of Glasgow

Article

DOI: 10.14236/ewic/FDIA2015.11

Copyright statement: © Manotumruksa. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Proceedings of the 6 ^th Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access 2015

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Conference name: Sixth BCS-IRSG Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA 2015)

Conference acronym: FDIA 2015

Conference number: 6

Conference location: Thessaloniki, Greece

Conference date: 31 August - 4 September 2015

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Future Directions in Information Access

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Product Information: 1477-9358BCS Learning & Development

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Series title: Electronic Workshops in Computing