With the development and prevalence of online social networks, there is an obvious tendency that people are willing to attend and share group activities with friends or acquaintances. This motivates the study on group...With the development and prevalence of online social networks, there is an obvious tendency that people are willing to attend and share group activities with friends or acquaintances. This motivates the study on group recommendation, which aims to meet the needs of a group of users, instead of only individual users. However, how to aggregate different preferences of different group members is still a challenging problem： 1） the choice of a member in a group is influenced by various factors, e.g., personal preference, group topic, and social relationship; 2） users have different influences when in diffe- rent groups. In this paper, we propose a generative geo-social group recommendation model （GSGR） to recommend points of interest （POIs） for groups. Specifically, GSGR well models the personal preference impacted by geographical information, group topics, and social influence for recommendation. Moreover, when making recommendations, GSGR aggregates the preferences of group members with different weights to estimate the preference score of a group to a POI. Experimental results on two datasets show that GSGR is effective in group recommendation and outperforms the state-of-the-art methods.展开更多
With the rapid development of location-based services, a particularly important aspect of start-up marketing research is to explore and characterize points of interest （PoIs） such as restaurants and hotels on maps. ...With the rapid development of location-based services, a particularly important aspect of start-up marketing research is to explore and characterize points of interest （PoIs） such as restaurants and hotels on maps. However, due to the lack of direct access to PoI databases, it is necessary to rely on existing APIs to query Pols within a region and calculate PoI statistics. Unfortunately, public APIs generally im- pose a limit on the maximum number of queries. Therefore, we propose effective and efficient sampling methods based on road networks to sample PoIs on maps and provide unbiased estimators for calculating PoI statistics. In general, the more intense the roads, the denser the distribution of PoIs is within a region. Experimental results show that compared with state-of-the-art methods, our sampling methods improve the efficiency of aggregate statistical estimations.展开更多
基金This research was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61572335 and the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province of China under Grant No. BK20151223.
文摘With the development and prevalence of online social networks, there is an obvious tendency that people are willing to attend and share group activities with friends or acquaintances. This motivates the study on group recommendation, which aims to meet the needs of a group of users, instead of only individual users. However, how to aggregate different preferences of different group members is still a challenging problem： 1） the choice of a member in a group is influenced by various factors, e.g., personal preference, group topic, and social relationship; 2） users have different influences when in diffe- rent groups. In this paper, we propose a generative geo-social group recommendation model （GSGR） to recommend points of interest （POIs） for groups. Specifically, GSGR well models the personal preference impacted by geographical information, group topics, and social influence for recommendation. Moreover, when making recommendations, GSGR aggregates the preferences of group members with different weights to estimate the preference score of a group to a POI. Experimental results on two datasets show that GSGR is effective in group recommendation and outperforms the state-of-the-art methods.
基金This work was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China （NSFC） （Grant N os. 61170020, 61402311, 61440053）, and the US National Science Foundation （IIS- 1115417）.
文摘With the rapid development of location-based services, a particularly important aspect of start-up marketing research is to explore and characterize points of interest （PoIs） such as restaurants and hotels on maps. However, due to the lack of direct access to PoI databases, it is necessary to rely on existing APIs to query Pols within a region and calculate PoI statistics. Unfortunately, public APIs generally im- pose a limit on the maximum number of queries. Therefore, we propose effective and efficient sampling methods based on road networks to sample PoIs on maps and provide unbiased estimators for calculating PoI statistics. In general, the more intense the roads, the denser the distribution of PoIs is within a region. Experimental results show that compared with state-of-the-art methods, our sampling methods improve the efficiency of aggregate statistical estimations.
