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Hoodsquare: Modeling and Recommending Neighborhoods in Location-based Social Networks
Information garnered from activity on location-based social networks can be
harnessed to characterize urban spaces and organize them into neighborhoods. In
this work, we adopt a data-driven approach to the identification and modeling
of urban neighborhoods using location-based social networks. We represent
geographic points in the city using spatio-temporal information about
Foursquare user check-ins and semantic information about places, with the goal
of developing features to input into a novel neighborhood detection algorithm.
The algorithm first employs a similarity metric that assesses the homogeneity
of a geographic area, and then with a simple mechanism of geographic
navigation, it detects the boundaries of a city's neighborhoods. The models and
algorithms devised are subsequently integrated into a publicly available,
map-based tool named Hoodsquare that allows users to explore activities and
neighborhoods in cities around the world.
Finally, we evaluate Hoodsquare in the context of a recommendation
application where user profiles are matched to urban neighborhoods. By
comparing with a number of baselines, we demonstrate how Hoodsquare can be used
to accurately predict the home neighborhood of Twitter users. We also show that
we are able to suggest neighborhoods geographically constrained in size, a
desirable property in mobile recommendation scenarios for which geographical
precision is key.Comment: ASE/IEEE SocialCom 201
What’s going on in my city? Recommender systems and electronic participatory budgeting
In this paper, we present electronic participatory budgeting (ePB) as a novel application domain for recommender systems. On public data from the ePB platforms of three major US cities – Cambridge, Miami and New York City–, we evaluate various methods that exploit heterogeneous sources and models of user preferences to provide personalized recommendations of citizen proposals. We show that depending on characteristics of the cities and their participatory processes, particular methods are more effective than others for each city. This result, together with open issues identified in the paper, call for further research in the area
"When and Where?": Behavior Dominant Location Forecasting with Micro-blog Streams
The proliferation of smartphones and wearable devices has increased the
availability of large amounts of geospatial streams to provide significant
automated discovery of knowledge in pervasive environments, but most prominent
information related to altering interests have not yet adequately capitalized.
In this paper, we provide a novel algorithm to exploit the dynamic fluctuations
in user's point-of-interest while forecasting the future place of visit with
fine granularity. Our proposed algorithm is based on the dynamic formation of
collective personality communities using different languages, opinions,
geographical and temporal distributions for finding out optimized equivalent
content. We performed extensive empirical experiments involving, real-time
streams derived from 0.6 million stream tuples of micro-blog comprising 1945
social person fusion with graph algorithm and feed-forward neural network model
as a predictive classification model. Lastly, The framework achieves 62.10%
mean average precision on 1,20,000 embeddings on unlabeled users and
surprisingly 85.92% increment on the state-of-the-art approach.Comment: Accepted as a full paper in the 2nd International Workshop on Social
Computing co-located with ICDM, 2018 Singapor
The state-of-the-art in personalized recommender systems for social networking
With the explosion of Web 2.0 application such as blogs, social and professional networks, and various other types of social media, the rich online information and various new sources of knowledge flood users and hence pose a great challenge in terms of information overload. It is critical to use intelligent agent software systems to assist users in finding the right information from an abundance of Web data. Recommender systems can help users deal with information overload problem efficiently by suggesting items (e.g., information and products) that match users’ personal interests. The recommender technology has been successfully employed in many applications such as recommending films, music, books, etc. The purpose of this report is to give an overview of existing technologies for building personalized recommender systems in social networking environment, to propose a research direction for addressing user profiling and cold start problems by exploiting user-generated content newly available in Web 2.0
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