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Point of interest (POI) recommendation can play a pivotal role in enriching tourists' experiences by suggesting context-dependent and preference-matching locations and activities, such as restaurants, landmarks, itineraries, and cultural…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Alejandro Bellogín , Linus W. Dietz , Francesco Ricci , Pablo Sánchez

Travel planning is a sophisticated decision-making process that requires synthesizing multifaceted information to construct itineraries. However, existing travel planning approaches face several challenges: (1) Pruning candidate points of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Yinuo Wang , Mining Tan , Wenxiang Jiao , Xiaoxi Li , Hao Wang , Xuanyu Zhang , Yuan Lu , Weiming Dong

Modern transportation planning relies heavily on accurate predictions of person and vehicle trips. However, traditional planning models often fail to account for the intricacies and dynamics of travel behavior, leading to less-than-optimal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Kojo Adu-Gyamfi , Sharma Anuj

The recommendation of points of interest (POIs) is essential in location-based social networks. It makes it easier for users and locations to share information. Recently, researchers tend to recommend POIs by treating them as large-scale…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Syed Raza Bashir , Vojislav Misic

We consider a practical top-k route search problem: given a collection of points of interest (POIs) with rated features and traveling costs between POIs, a user wants to find k routes from a source to a destination and limited in a cost…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Hongwei Liang , Ke Wang

Point-of-interest (POI) recommendations are essential for travelers and the e-tourism business. They assist in decision-making regarding what venues to visit and where to dine and stay. While it is known that traditional recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Linus W. Dietz , Pablo Sánchez , Alejandro Bellogín

In this paper, we address the problem of personalized next Point-of-interest (POI) recommendation which has become an important and very challenging task for location-based social networks (LBSNs), but not well studied yet. With the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Jing He , Xin Li , Lejian Liao , Williamb K. Cheung

In Group Trip Planning (GTP) Query Problem, we are given a city road network where a number of Points of Interest (PoI) have been marked with their respective categories (e.g., Cafeteria, Park, Movie Theater, etc.). A group of agents want…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Dildar Ali , Suman Banerjee , Yamuna Prasad

Next point-of-interest (POI) recommendation aims to offer suggestions on which POI to visit next, given a user's POI visit history. This problem has a wide application in the tourism industry, and it is gaining an increasing interest as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Qianyu Guo , Jianzhong Qi

Recommendation based on user preferences is a common task for e-commerce websites. New recommendation algorithms are often evaluated by offline comparison to baseline algorithms such as recommending random or the most popular items. Here,…

Recommender systems are critical tools to match listings and travelers in two-sided vacation rental marketplaces. Such systems require high capacity to extract user preferences for items from implicit signals at scale. To learn those…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Pavlos Mitsoulis-Ntompos , Meisam Hejazinia , Serena Zhang , Travis Brady

Existing benchmarks have laid the foundation for travel planning agents by establishing API-centric paradigms. However, as the capabilities of Autonomous Agents continue to advance, their evaluation must evolve beyond simple tool execution…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Yuting Xu , Jiayi Tian , Jian Liang , Xin Xiong , Hang Zhang , Mu Xu , Xiao-Yu Zhang

Learning to solve combinatorial optimization problems, such as the vehicle routing problem, offers great computational advantages over classical operations research solvers and heuristics. The recently developed deep reinforcement learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Daniela Thyssens , Jonas Falkner , Lars Schmidt-Thieme

The next point-of-interest (POI) prediction is a significant task in location-based services, yet its complexity arises from the consolidation of spatial and semantic intent. This fusion is subject to the influences of historical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Nan Jiang , Haitao Yuan , Jianing Si , Minxiao Chen , Shangguang Wang

Nowadays, mobile devices enable constant tracking of the user's position and location trajectories can be used to infer personal points of interest (POIs) like homes, workplaces, or stores. A common way to extract POIs is to first identify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Christian Löwens , Daniela Thyssens , Emma Andersson , Christina Jenkins , Lars Schmidt-Thieme

Location-based Social Networks (LBSNs) enable users to socialize with friends and acquaintances by sharing their check-ins, opinions, photos, and reviews. Huge volume of data generated from LBSNs opens up a new avenue of research that gives…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Md. Ashraful Islam , Mir Mahathir Mohammad , Sarkar Snigdha Sarathi Das , Mohammed Eunus Ali

Travel time estimation is a key task in navigation apps and web mapping services. Existing deterministic and probabilistic methods, based on the assumption of trip independence, predominantly focus on modeling individual trips while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Chen Xu , Qiang Wang , Lijun Sun

As the digitization of travel industry accelerates, analyzing and understanding travelers' behaviors becomes increasingly important. However, traveler data frequently exhibit high data sparsity due to the relatively low frequency of user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Hongliu Cao , Ilias El Baamrani , Eoin Thomas

Next Point-of-Interests (POIs) recommendation task aims to provide a dynamic ranking of POIs based on users' current check-in trajectories. The recommendation performance of this task is contingent upon a comprehensive understanding of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Tianhao Huang , Xuan Pan , Xiangrui Cai , Ying Zhang , Xiaojie Yuan

Point-of-interest (POI) recommendation systems aim to predict the next destinations of user based on their preferences and historical check-ins. Existing generative POI recommendation methods usually employ random numeric IDs for POIs,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Dongsheng Wang , Yuxi Huang , Shen Gao , Yifan Wang , Chengrui Huang , Shuo Shang