Context-aware location recommendation by using a random walk-based approach

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2016-05-01

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Bagci, Hakan
Karagöz, Pınar

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The location-based social networks (LBSN) enable users to check in their current location and share it with other users. The accumulated check-in data can be employed for the benefit of users by providing personalized recommendations. In this paper, we propose a context-aware location recommendation system for LBSNs using a random walk approach. Our proposed approach considers the current context (i.e., current social relations, personal preferences and current location) of the user to provide personalized recommendations. We build a graph model of LBSNs for performing a random walk approach with restart. Random walk is performed to calculate the recommendation probabilities of the nodes. A list of locations are recommended to users after ordering the nodes according to the estimated probabilities. We compare our algorithm, CLoRW, with popularity-based, friend-based and expert-based baselines, user-based collaborative filtering approach and a similar work in the literature. According to experimental results, our algorithm outperforms these approaches in all of the test cases.

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Location-Based Social Networks, Location Recommendation, Context-Aware Recommendation, Random Walk

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/42327

Journal

KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10115-015-0857-0

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H. Bagci and P. Karagöz, “Context-aware location recommendation by using a random walk-based approach,” KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS, pp. 241–260, 2016, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/42327.