Affiliation:
1. IIIT Delhi, India
2. IIT Delhi, India
3. Queen's University Belfast, UK
Abstract
Location-based social networks (LBSNs) such as Foursquare offer a platform for users to share and be aware of each other’s physical movements. As a result of such a sharing of
check-in
information with each other, users can be influenced to visit (or check-in) at the locations visited by their friends. Quantifying such influences in these LBSNs is useful in various settings such as location promotion, personalized recommendations, mobility pattern prediction, and so forth. In this article, we develop a model to quantify the influence specific to a location between a pair of users. Specifically, we develop a framework called
LoCaTe
, that combines (a) a user mobility model based on kernel density estimates; (b) a model of the semantics of the location using topic models; and (c) a user correlation model that uses an exponential distribution. We further develop
LoCaTe+
, an advanced model within the same framework where user correlation is quantified using a Mutually Exciting Hawkes Process. We show the applicability of
LoCaTe
and
LoCaTe+
for location promotion and location recommendation tasks using LBSNs. Our models are validated using a long-term crawl of Foursquare data collected between January 2015 and February 2016, as well as other publicly available LBSN datasets. Our experiments demonstrate the efficacy of the LoCaTe framework in capturing location-specific influence between users. We also show that our models improve over state-of-the-art models for the task of location promotion as well as location recommendation.
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Subject
Artificial Intelligence,Theoretical Computer Science
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