Discovering User’s Trends and Routines from Location Based Social Networks

Abstract

Location data is a powerful source of information to discover user’s trends and routines. A suitable identification of the user context can be exploited to provide automatically services adapted to the user preferences. In this paper, we define a Dynamic Bayesian Network model and propose a method that processes location annotated data in order to train the model. Finally, our model enables us to predict future location contexts from the user patterns. A case study evaluates the proposal using real-world data of a location-based social network.

Keywords

• location based social networks
• user modeling
• probabilistic graphical models
• geolocation