Personalized location recommendation on location-based social networks

Abstract

Personalized location recommendation is a special topic of recommendation. It is related to human mobile behavior in the real world regarding various contexts including spatial, temporal, social, and content. The development of this topic is subject to the availability of human mobile data. The recent rapid growth of location-based social networks has alleviated such limitation, which promotes the development of various location recommendation techniques. This tutorial offers an overview, in a data mining perspective, of personalized location recommendation on location-based social networks. It introduces basic concepts, summarizes unique LBSN characteristics and research opportunities, elaborates associated challenges, reviews state-of-the-art algorithms with illustrative examples and real-world LBSN datasets, and discusses effective evaluation methods.