Spatial keyword querying

X Cao, L Chen, G Cong, CS Jensen, Q Qu… - … Conference ER 2012 …, 2012 - Springer
The web is increasingly being used by mobile users. In addition, it is increasingly becoming
possible to accurately geo-position mobile users and web content. This development gives …

Recommendations in location-based social networks: a survey

J Bao, Y Zheng, D Wilkie, M Mokbel - GeoInformatica, 2015 - Springer
Recent advances in localization techniques have fundamentally enhanced social
networking services, allowing users to share their locations and location-related contents …

Lcars: a location-content-aware recommender system

H Yin, Y Sun, B Cui, Z Hu, L Chen - Proceedings of the 19th ACM …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
Newly emerging location-based and event-based social network services provide us with a
new platform to understand users' preferences based on their activity history. A user can …

Lars: A location-aware recommender system

JJ Levandoski, M Sarwat, A Eldawy… - 2012 IEEE 28th …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes LARS, a location-aware recommender system that uses location-based
ratings to produce recommendations. Traditional recommender systems do not consider …

Lars*: An efficient and scalable location-aware recommender system

M Sarwat, JJ Levandoski, A Eldawy… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2014 - computer.org
This paper proposes LARS*, a location-aware recommender system that uses location-
based ratings to produce recommendations. Traditional recommender systems do not …

Modeling location-based user rating profiles for personalized recommendation

H Yin, B Cui, L Chen, Z Hu, C Zhang - ACM Transactions on Knowledge …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
This article proposes LA-LDA, a location-aware probabilistic generative model that exploits
location-based ratings to model user profiles and produce recommendations. Most of the …

LCARS: A spatial item recommender system

H Yin, B Cui, Y Sun, Z Hu, L Chen - ACM Transactions on Information …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Newly emerging location-based and event-based social network services provide us with a
new platform to understand users' preferences based on their activity history. A user can …

Text vs. space: efficient geo-search query processing

M Christoforaki, J He, C Dimopoulos… - Proceedings of the 20th …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
Many web search services allow users to constrain text queries to a geographic location (eg,
yoga classes near Santa Monica). Important examples include local search engines such as …

Learning to rank for spatiotemporal search

B Shaw, J Shea, S Sinha, A Hogue - … on Web search and data mining, 2013 - dl.acm.org
In this article we consider the problem of mapping a noisy estimate of a user's current
location to a semantically meaningful point of interest, such as a home, restaurant, or store …

Comparing cities' cycling patterns using online shared bicycle maps

A Sarkar, N Lathia, C Mascolo - Transportation, 2015 - Springer
Bicycle sharing systems are increasingly being deployed in urban areas around the world,
alongside online maps that disclose the state (ie, location, number of bicycles/number of free …