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Recently, a new approach to perform regression testing has been defined: the point of interest (POI) testing. A POI, in this context, is any expression of a program. The approach receives as input a set of relations between POIs from a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-08-27 Sergio Pérez , Salvador Tamarit

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

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

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) recommender systems help users discover relevant locations, but their effectiveness is often compromised by popularity bias, which disadvantages less popular, yet potentially meaningful places. This paper addresses…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Andrea Forster , Simone Kopeinik , Denic Helic , Stefan Thalmann , Dominik Kowald

This paper presents a test collection for contextual point of interest (POI) recommendation in a narrative-driven scenario. There, user history is not available, instead, user requests are described in natural language. The requests in our…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Jafar Afzali , Aleksander Mark Drzewiecki , Krisztian Balog

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

Popularity is often included in experimental evaluation to provide a reference performance for a recommendation task. To understand how popularity baseline is defined and evaluated, we sample 12 papers from top-tier conferences including…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Yitong Ji , Aixin Sun , Jie Zhang , Chenliang Li

Tour itinerary recommendation involves planning a sequence of relevant Point-of-Interest (POIs), which combines challenges from the fields of both Operations Research (OR) and Recommendation Systems (RS). As an OR problem, there is the need…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-22 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

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

The rapid growth of location-based services(LBSs)has greatly enriched people's urban lives and attracted millions of users in recent years. Location-based social networks(LBSNs)allow users to check-in at a physical location and share daily…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Shudong Liu

The widespread adoption of smartphones and Location-Based Social Networks has led to a massive influx of spatio-temporal data, creating unparalleled opportunities for enhancing Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation systems. These advanced…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Qianru Zhang , Peng Yang , Junliang Yu , Haixin Wang , Xingwei He , Siu-Ming Yiu , Hongzhi Yin

An automated contextual suggestion algorithm is likely to recommend contextually appropriate and personalized 'points-of-interest' (POIs) to a user, if it can extract information from the user's preference history (exploitation) and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Anirban Chakraborty , Debasis Ganguly , Annalina Caputo , Gareth J. F. Jones

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

POI recommendation is practically important to facilitate various Location-Based Social Network services, and has attracted rising research attention recently. Existing works generally assume the available POI check-ins reported by users…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Jiangnan Xia , Yu Yang , Senzhang Wang , Hongzhi Yin , Jiannong Cao , Philip S. Yu

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

Recommender systems have been gaining increasing research attention over the years. Most existing recommendation methods focus on capturing users' personalized preferences through historical user-item interactions, which may potentially…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Jiazheng Jing , Yinan Zhang , Xin Zhou , Zhiqi Shen

Next Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation plays a crucial role in location-based services by predicting users' future mobility patterns. Existing methods typically compute a single user representation from historical trajectories and use…

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