Review of Point of Interest Recommendation Systems in Location-Based Social Networks

Abstract

Point of interest recommendation is recently one of the hotspots in the field of location-based social networks and recommendation systems. Understanding the research status of the point of interest recommendation in location-based social networks can provide a direction for the next step of work. The recent literatures of the point of interest recommendation systems are analyzed. Firstly, the definition is introduced, and the difference from traditional recommendation is discussed from three aspects: influencing factors, recommendation approaches and existing problems. Secondly, the general framework of the point of interest recommendation is proposed, which includes data sources, recommendation approaches and evaluation. Based on this framework, the various influencing factors are introduced, the current recommendation algorithms are generalized, and the evaluation metrics are summarized. Meanwhile, the representative works are analyzed, the research contents and characteristics of each type of methods are summarized in detail, and their advantages and limitations are evaluated. Finally, the challenges and potential directions for possible extensions in this filed are summarized and prospected, and the future research trends and development directions are concluded.

Keywords

• |location-based social networks|recommendation systems|point of interest recommendation|influencing factor