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The emergence of smartphones has given mobile computing access to everyday reality. More specifically, the context modeling offers users an effective way to customize search results and even the recommended elements by limiting the data…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Imen Ben Sassi

Next point-of-interest (POI) recommendation requires modeling user mobility as a spatiotemporal sequence, where different behavioral factors may evolve at different temporal and spatial scales. Most existing methods compress a user's…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Zhenyu Yu , Chunlei Meng , Yangchen Zeng , Mohd Yamani Idna Idris , Shuigeng Zhou

The number of Internet users had grown rapidly enticing companies and cooperations to make full use of recommendation infrastructures. Consequently, online advertisement companies emerged to aid us in the presence of numerous items and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-30 S. M. Mahdi Seyednezhad , Kailey Nobuko Cozart , John Anthony Bowllan , Anthony O. Smith

The exponential growth of Location-based Social Networks (LBSNs) has greatly stimulated the demand for precise location-based recommendation services. Next Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation, which aims to provide personalised POI…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Yang Li , Tong Chen , Peng-Fei Zhang , Zi Huang , Hongzhi Yin

In this work, we introduce the notion of Context-Based Prediction Models. A Context-Based Prediction Model determines the probability of a user's action (such as a click or a conversion) solely by relying on user and contextual features,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Jan Hartman , Assaf Klein , Davorin Kopič , Natalia Silberstein

In recommender systems, a cold-start problem occurs when there is no past interaction record associated with the user or item. Typical solutions to the cold-start problem make use of contextual information, such as user demographic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Yihong Zhang , Takuya Maekawa , Takahiro Hara

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

Our goal is to answer real-world tourism questions that seek Points-of-Interest (POI) recommendations. Such questions express various kinds of spatial and non-spatial constraints, necessitating a combination of textual and spatial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Danish Contractor , Shashank Goel , Mausam , Parag Singla

The next Point of Interest (POI) recommendation aims to recommend the next POI for users at a specific time. As users' check-in records can be viewed as a long sequence, methods based on Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) have recently shown…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Bin Wang , Yan Zhang , Yan Ma , Yaohui Jin , Yanyan Xu

Recommender Systems (RSs) aim to model and predict the user preference while interacting with items, such as Points of Interest (POIs). These systems face several challenges, such as data sparsity, limiting their effectiveness. In this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Kosar Seyedhoseinzadeh , Hossein A. Rahmani , Mohsen Afsharchi , Mohammad Aliannejadi

The Social Internet of Things (SIoT) enables interconnected smart devices to share data and services, opening up opportunities for personalized service recommendations. However, existing research often overlooks crucial aspects that can…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Amar Khelloufi , Huansheng Ning , Abdelkarim Ben Sada , Abdenacer Naouri , Sahraoui Dhelim

Recommending points of interest (POIs) is a challenging task that requires extracting comprehensive location data from location-based social media platforms. To provide effective location-based recommendations, it's important to analyze…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Syed Raza Bashir , Shaina Raza , Vojislav Misic

In Location-Based Services, Point-Of-Interest(POI) recommendation plays a crucial role in both user experience and business opportunities. Graph neural networks have been proven effective in providing personalized POI recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Shaohua Liu , Yu Qi , Gen Li , Mingjian Chen , Teng Zhang , Jia Cheng , Jun Lei

In networked environments, users frequently share recommendations about content, products, services, and courses of action with others. The extent to which such recommendations are successful and adopted is highly contextual, dependent on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Ahmed Sayeed Faruk , Mohammad Shahverdikondori , Elena Zheleva

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

Contextual information at inference time, such as demonstrations, retrieved knowledge, or interaction history, can substantially improve large language models (LLMs) without parameter updates, yet its theoretical role remains poorly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Dingzirui Wang , Xuanliang Zhang , Keyan Xu , Qingfu Zhu , Wanxiang Che , Yang Deng

Image based social networks are among the most popular social networking services in recent years. With tremendous images uploaded everyday, understanding users' preferences on user-generated images and making recommendations have become an…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Le Wu , Lei Chen , Richang Hong , Yanjie Fu , Xing Xie , Meng Wang

With the increasing popularity of location-based social media applications and devices that automatically tag generated content with locations, large repositories of collaborative geo-referenced data are appearing on-line. Efficiently…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-04-09 Leandro Balby Marinho , Cláudio de Souza Baptista , Thomas Sandholm , Iury Nunes , Caio Nóbrega , Jordão Araújo

The next Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation task aims to predict users' next destinations based on their historical movement data and plays a key role in location-based services and personalized applications. Accurate next POI…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Zhao Liu , Wei Liu , Huajie Zhu , Jianxing Yu , Jian Yin , Wang-Chien Lee , Shun Wang

Recommendation systems are an important units in today's e-commerce applications, such as targeted advertising, personalized marketing and information retrieval. In recent years, the importance of contextual information has motivated…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-07-29 Tal Hadad