Title :
GeoLife2.0: A Location-Based Social Networking Service
Author :
Zheng, Yu ; Chen, Yukun ; Xie, Xing ; Ma, Wei-Ying
Author_Institution :
Microsoft Res. Asia, Beijing
Abstract :
GeoLife2.0 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 peoplepsilas location history, GeoLife can measure the similarity between users and perform personalized friend recommendation for an individual. Later, we can predict the individualpsilas interest level in the locations visited by their friends while have not been found by them. The locations with relatively high interesting level can be recommended. Therefore, GeoLife2.0 can expand a userpsilas social network, provide them with a trustworthy resource matching their interests and help them sponsor geo-related activities like cycling with minimal effort.
Keywords :
Global Positioning System; geographic information systems; information filters; social networking (online); GPS-data-driven social networking service; GeoLife2.0; geo-related activities; location-based social networking service; personalized friend recommendation; trustworthy resource matching; Asia; Collaboration; Conference management; Databases; Filtering; Global Positioning System; History; Middleware; Recommender systems; Social network services;
Conference_Titel :
Mobile Data Management: Systems, Services and Middleware, 2009. MDM '09. Tenth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Taipei
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4153-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3650-7
DOI :
10.1109/MDM.2009.50