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With the availability of vast amounts of user visitation history on location-based social networks (LBSN), the problem of Point-of-Interest (POI) prediction has been extensively studied. However, much of the research has been conducted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Mengyue Hang , Ian Pytlarz , Jennifer Neville

The popularity of location-based social networks (LBSNs) has led to a tremendous amount of user check-in data. Recommending points of interest (POIs) plays a key role in satisfying users' needs in LBSNs. While recent work has explored the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Mohammad Aliannejadi , Dimitrios Rafailidis , Fabio Crestani

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

The explosive growth of the location-enabled devices coupled with the increasing use of Internet services has led to an increasing awareness of the importance and usage of geospatial information in many applications. The navigation apps…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-05-25 Pouria Amirian , Anahid Basiri , Jeremy Morley

The wide spread of location-based social networks brings about a huge volume of user check-in data, which facilitates the recommendation of points of interest (POIs). Recent advances on distributed representation shed light on learning low…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Bei Liu , Tieyun Qian , Bing Liu , Liang Hong , Zhenni You , Yuxiang Li

Spatial item recommendation has become an important means to help people discover interesting locations, especially when people pay a visit to unfamiliar regions. Some current researches are focusing on modelling individual and collective…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-06-21 Hao Wang , Yanmei Fu , Qinyong Wang , Hongzhi Yin , Changying Du , Hui Xiong

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

In this paper we present the first population-level, city-scale analysis of application usage on smartphones. Using deep packet inspection at the network operator level, we obtained a geo-tagged dataset with more than 6 million unique…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Donghan Yu , Yong Li , Fengli Xu , Pengyu Zhang , Vassilis Kostakos

With the rapid growth of Location-Based Social Networks, personalized Points of Interest (POIs) recommendation has become a critical task to help users explore their surroundings. Due to the scarcity of check-in data, the availability of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Hossein A. Rahmani , Mohammad Aliannejadi , Sajad Ahmadian , Mitra Baratchi , Mohsen Afsharchi , Fabio Crestani

Out-of-town trip recommendation aims to generate a sequence of Points of Interest (POIs) for users traveling from their hometowns to previously unvisited regions based on personalized itineraries, e.g., origin, destination, and trip…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yinghui Liu , Hao Miao , Guojiang Shen , Yan Zhao , Xiangjie Kong , Ivan Lee

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

Analyzing mobility behavior of users is extremely useful to create or improve existing services. Several research works have been done in order to study mobility behavior of users that mainly use users' significant locations. However, these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-08 Arielle Moro , Benoît Garbinato , Valérie Chavez-Demoulin

POI recommendation is a key task in tourism information systems. However, in contrast to conventional point of interest (POI) recommender systems, the available data is extremely sparse; most tourist visit a few sightseeing spots once and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Kun Yi , Ryu Yamagishi , Taishan Li , Zhengyang Bai , Qiang Ma

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

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

Knowledge discovery from GPS trajectory data is an important topic in several scientific areas, including data mining, human behavior analysis, and user modeling. This paper proposes a task that assigns personalized visited-POIs. Its goal…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Jun Suzuki , Yoshihiko Suhara , Hiroyuki Toda , Kyosuke Nishida

Being an indispensable component in location-based social networks, next point-of-interest (POI) recommendation recommends users unexplored POIs based on their recent visiting histories. However, existing work mainly models check-in data as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Yang Li , Tong Chen , Yadan Luo , Hongzhi Yin , Zi Huang

Accurate prediction of the next point of interest (POI) within human mobility trajectories is essential for location-based services, as it enables more timely and personalized recommendations. In particular, with the rise of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Ruichen Tan , Jiawei Xue , Kota Tsubouchi , Takahiro Yabe , Satish V. Ukkusuri

Next Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation is of great value for both location-based service providers and users. Recently Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) have been proved to be effective on sequential recommendation tasks. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Pengpeng Zhao , Haifeng Zhu , Yanchi Liu , Zhixu Li , Jiajie Xu , Victor S. Sheng

Tracking locations is practical and speditive with smartphones, as they are omnipresent devices, relatively cheap, and have the necessary sensors for positioning and networking integrated in the same box. Nowadays recent models have GNSS…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Francesco Pirotti , Alberto Guarnieri , Marco Piragnolo , Marco Boscaro , Raffaele Cavalli