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Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Ziyao Li , Shang-Ling Hsu , Cyrus Shahabi

The rapid growth of location acquisition technologies makes Point-of-Interest(POI) recommendation possible due to redundant user check-in records. In this paper, we focus on next POI recommendation in which next POI is based on previous…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Yiping Sun

Recommendation systems (RS) are an increasingly relevant area for both academic and industry researchers, given their widespread impact on the daily online experiences of billions of users. One common issue in real RS is the cold-start…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-28 William Shiao , Mingxuan Ju , Zhichun Guo , Xin Chen , Evangelos Papalexakis , Tong Zhao , Neil Shah , Yozen Liu

We introduce and study the problem in which a mobile sensing robot (our tourist) is tasked to travel among and gather intelligence at a set of spatially distributed point-of-interests (POIs). The quality of the information collected at each…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-10-10 Jingjin Yu , Javed Aslam , Sertac Karaman , Daniela Rus

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 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

Point-of-interest (POI) recommendation that suggests new places for users to visit arises with the popularity of location-based social networks (LBSNs). Due to the importance of POI recommendation in LBSNs, it has attracted much academic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-07-05 Shenglin Zhao , Irwin King , Michael R. Lyu

The trip planning query searches for preferred routes starting from a given point through multiple Point-of-Interests (PoI) that match user requirements. Although previous studies have investigated trip planning queries, they lack…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Yuya Sasaki , Yoshiharu Ishikawa , Yasuhiro Fujiwara , Makoto Onizuka

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 today's digital era, the use of Social Networks (SNs) and Location-Based SNs (LBSNs) has become integral for travelers seeking Points of Interest (POI) and sharing travel experiences. This trend is supported by the fact that a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Lucas Félix , Washington Cunha , Jussara Almeida

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

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

With the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs), tourists increasingly use it for route planning by entering keywords for attractions, instead of relying on traditional manual map services. LLMs provide generally reasonable suggestions, but…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Ziqiang Yu , Xiaohui Yu , Yueting Chen , Wei Liu , Anbang Song , Bolong Zheng

Travel Recommender Systems TRSs have been proposed to ease the burden of choice in the travel domain by providing valuable suggestions based on user preferences Despite the broad similarities in functionalities and data provided by TRSs…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Rickson Simioni Pereira , Claudio Di Sipio , Martina De Sanctis , Ludovico Iovino

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

As the popularity of Location-based Social Networks (LBSNs) increases, designing accurate models for Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation receives more attention. POI recommendation is often performed by incorporating contextual…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Hossein A. Rahmani , Mohammad Aliannejadi , Mitra Baratchi , Fabio Crestani

Although large language models have enhanced automated travel planning abilities, current systems remain misaligned with real-world scenarios. First, they assume users provide explicit queries, while in reality requirements are often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Bin Deng , Yizhe Feng , Zeming Liu , Qing Wei , Xiangrong Zhu , Shuai Chen , Yuanfang Guo , Yunhong Wang

Existing spatial object recommendation algorithms generally treat objects identically when ranking them. However, spatial objects often cover different levels of spatial granularity and thereby are heterogeneous. For example, one user may…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Hui Luo , Jingbo Zhou , Zhifeng Bao , Shuangli Li , J. Shane Culpepper , Haochao Ying , Hao Liu , Hui Xiong

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

Recommending Points-of-Interest (POIs) is surfacing in many location-based applications. The literature contains personalized and socialized POI recommendation approaches which employ historical check-ins and social links to make…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Behrooz Omidvar-Tehrani , Sruthi Viswanathan , Jean-Michel Renders