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Tour itinerary planning and recommendation are challenging tasks for tourists in unfamiliar countries. Many tour recommenders only consider broad POI categories and do not align well with users' preferences and other locational constraints.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Ngai Lam Ho , Kwan Hui Lim

Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation is one of the most important location-based services helping people discover interesting venues or services. However, the extreme user-POI matrix sparsity and the varying spatio-temporal context pose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Xianjing Wang , Flora D. Salim , Yongli Ren , Piotr Koniusz

Recently, Point of interest (POI) recommendation has gained ever-increasing importance in various Location-Based Social Networks (LBSNs). With the recent advances of neural models, much work has sought to leverage neural networks to learn…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Hossein A. Rahmani , Mohammad Aliannejadi , Rasoul Mirzaei Zadeh , Mitra Baratchi , Mohsen Afsharchi , Fabio Crestani

Trip recommendation is an important location-based service that helps relieve users from the time and efforts for trip planning. It aims to recommend a sequence of places of interest (POIs) for a user to visit that maximizes the user's…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-27 Jiayuan He , Jianzhong Qi , Kotagiri Ramamohanarao

Recently, Foursquare released a global dataset with more than 100 million points of interest (POIs), each representing a real-world business on its platform. However, many entries lack complete metadata such as addresses or categories, and…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Hossein Amiri , Mohammad Hashemi , Andreas Züfle

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

Recent progress in geospatial foundation models highlights the importance of learning general-purpose representations for real-world locations, particularly points-of-interest (POIs) where human activity concentrates. Existing approaches,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Maria Despoina Siampou , Shushman Choudhury , Shang-Ling Hsu , Neha Arora , Cyrus Shahabi

In this paper, we present an unsupervised learning approach to identify the user points of interest (POI) by exploiting WiFi measurements from smartphone application data. Due to the lack of GPS positioning accuracy in indoor, sheltered,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Sumudu HasalaMarakkalage , Billy Pik Lik Lau , Yuren Zhou , Ran Liu , Chau Yuen , Wei Quin Yow , Keng Hua Chong

Despite advancements in real estate appraisal methods, this study primarily focuses on two pivotal challenges. Firstly, we explore the often-underestimated impact of Points of Interest (POI) on property values, emphasizing the necessity for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Sumin Han , Youngjun Park , Sonia Sabir , Jisun An , Dongman Lee

It has been insufficiently explored how to perform density-based clustering by exploiting textual attributes on social media. In this paper, we aim at discovering a social point-of-interest (POI) boundary, formed as a convex polygon. More…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Cong Tran , Dung D. Vu , Won-Yong Shin

Point-of-Interest (POI) recommender systems play a vital role in people's lives by recommending unexplored POIs to users and have drawn extensive attention from both academia and industry. Despite their value, however, they still suffer…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Xiao Zhou , Cecilia Mascolo , Zhongxiang Zhao

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

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

Urban area-of-interest (AOI) refers to an integrated urban functional zone with defined polygonal boundaries. The rapid development of urban commerce has led to increasing demands for highly accurate and timely AOI data. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Chuanji Shi , Yingying Zhang , Jiaotuan Wang , Xin Guo , Qiqi Zhu

In location-based social networks (LBSNs), users sense urban point-of-interest (PoI) information in the vicinity and share such information with friends in online social networks. Given users' limited social connections and severe lags in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Songhua Li , Lingjie Duan

Learning effective representations of urban environments requires capturing spatial structure beyond fixed administrative boundaries. Existing geospatial representation learning approaches typically aggregate Points of Interest(POI) into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Mohammad Hashemi , Hossein Amiri , Andreas Zufle

Personalized recommendation of Points of Interest (POIs) plays a key role in satisfying users on Location-Based Social Networks (LBSNs). In this paper, we propose a probabilistic model to find the mapping between user-annotated tags and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-06-18 Mohammad Aliannejadi , Fabio Crestani

Point of interest (POI) data serves as a valuable source of semantic information for places of interest and has many geospatial applications in real estate, transportation, and urban planning. With the availability of different data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Raymond Low , Zeynep D. Tekler , Lynette Cheah

When using the electronic map, POI retrieval is the initial and important step, whose quality directly affects the user experience. Similarity between user query and POI information is the most critical feature in POI retrieval. An accurate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Ji Zhao , Meiyu Yu , Huan Chen , Boning Li , Lingyu Zhang , Qi Song , Li Ma , Hua Chai , Jieping Ye

The heterogeneity of Point of Interest (POI) taxonomies is a persistent challenge for the integration of urban datasets and the development of location-based services. OpenStreetMap (OSM) adopts a flexible, community-driven tagging system,…

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