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Location-Based Social Networks
2014Location-based Social Networks (LBSNs) can be considered as a special Online Social Network (OSN) category. Actually, an LBSN has the same OSN’s properties, but considers location as the core object of its structure. This chapter initially provides some definitions and basic services that are offered by LBSNs, a brief literature review, and two ...
Wang-Chien Lee, Mao Ye
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Location-Based Social Networks: Locations
2011While chapter 8 studies the research philosophy behind a location-based social network (LBSN) from the point of view of users, this chapter gradually explores the research into LBSNs from the perspective of locations. A series of research topics are presented, with respect to mining the collective social knowledge from many users' GPS trajectories to ...
Yu Zheng, Xing Xie
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Location-Based Social Networks
2012The ability to gather and manipulate real world contextual data, such as user location, in modern software systems presents opportunities for new and exciting application areas. A key focus among those working in the area of Location-Based services today has been the creation of social networks which allow mobile device users to exchange details of ...
Declan Traynor, Kevin Curran
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Venue attacks in location-based social networks
Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Privacy in Geographic Information Collection and Analysis, 2014Location-Based Social Networks (LBSNs), such as Foursquare, Yelp and Facebook Place, have attracted many people, including business owners who use LBSNs to promote their businesses. A physical location is called a venue or a place of interest in an LBSN.
Lei Jin 0003, Hassan Takabi
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Analyzing Location Predictability on Location-Based Social Networks
2014With the growing popularity of location-based social networks, vast amount of user check-in histories have been accumulated. Based on such historical data, predicting a user’s next check-in place is of much interest recently. There is, however, little study on the limit of predictability of this task and its correlation with users’ demographics.
Defu Lian +3 more
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Location-Based Influence Maximization in Social Networks
Proceedings of the 24th ACM International on Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, 2015In this paper, we aim at the product promotion in O2O model and carry out the research of location-based influence maximization on the platform of LBSN. As offline consuming behavior exists under the O2O environment, the traditional online influence diffusion model could not describe the product acceptance accurately.
Tao Zhou +5 more
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Workload characterization of a location-based social network
Social Network Analysis and Mining, 2014Recently, there has been a large popularization of location-based social networks, such as Foursquare and Apontador, in which users can share their current locations, upload tips and make comments about places. Part of this popularity is due to facility access to the Internet through mobile devices with GPS.
Theo Lins +2 more
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GeoLife2.0: A Location-Based Social Networking Service
2009 Tenth International Conference on Mobile Data Management: Systems, Services and Middleware, 2009GeoLife2.0 is a GPS-data-driven social networking service where people can share life experiences and connect to each other with their location histories. By mining people’s location history, GeoLife can measure the similarity between users and perform personalized friend recommendation for an individual. Later, we can predict the individual’s interest
Yu Zheng 0004 +3 more
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Secure hitch in location based social networks
Computer Communications, 2017We propose a privacy-preserving proximity based location query (PPLQ) protocol, which enables each querier to get the location information of publisher without violating users location privacy.The proposed protocol utilizes prefix membership verification and predicate encryption technique to achieve the secure multi-dimensional keyword search and ...
Shiwen Zhang 0004 +5 more
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Providing recommendations on location-based social networks
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, 2016During the last decade, in parallel with the rapid growth of mobile communications and devices, location-based social networks have met a tremendous growth with the acceptance of the public being constantly increasing. Users have access to a plethora of venues and points of interest, while they are able to share their visits to various locations along ...
Pavlos Kosmides +6 more
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