On Predicting the Future Locations of Moving Objects

Abstract

The pervasiveness of mobile devices and location-based services produces as side effects an increasing volume of mobility data, which in turn creates the opportunity for a novel generation of analysis methods of movement behaviors. In this chapter, the authors focus on the problem of predicting future locations aimed at predicting with a certain accuracy the next location of a moving object. In particular, they provide a classification of the proposals in the literature addressing that problem. Then the authors preset the data mining method WhereNext and finally discuss possible improvements of that method.