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Location-Based Recommendation

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Synonyms

Location-aware recommendation; Mobile recommendation

Definition

A location-based recommendation is an information filtering service, which selectively returns location-aware items to a user. More specifically, a location-based recommendation suggests k items (e.g., venues, routes, friends, or social media) to a user u, considering her current/historical locations and the personal preferences. The recommended results are the k items with the highest predicated ratings calculated using a certain recommendation technique/model (such as content-based filtering, link analysis, or collaborative filtering).

Historical Background

Location-based recommendations are developed from two lines of services: (1) location-based services and (2) recommendation services. The traditional location-based services, answer spatial queries, such as k nearest neighbor queries (i.e., kNN) and spatial range queries. However, in many cases, the results with the closest spatial distances do not satisfy a...

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    http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/b16d359d-d164-469e-9fd4-daa38f2b2e13/

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    http://snap.stanford.edu/data/loc-brightkite.html

  3. 3.

    http://snap.stanford.edu/data/loc-gowalla.html

  4. 4.

    http://infolab.tamu.edu/data/

  5. 5.

    http://www.foursquare.com

  6. 6.

    http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/lbsn/default.aspx

  7. 7.

    http://www. public.asu.edu/~hgao16/dataset.html

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  1. Data Management, Analytics and Services (DMAS) and Ubiquitous Computing Group (Ubicomp), Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China

    Jie Bao & Yu Zheng

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Bao, J., Zheng, Y. (2018). Location-Based Recommendation. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_80700

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