Inferring individual physical locations with social friendships

Meng Zhou; Wei Tu; Qingquan Li; Yang Yue; Xiaomeng Chang

doi:10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2015.7378565

Inferring individual physical locations with social friendships

Meng Zhou, Wei Tu^*, Qingquan Li, Yang Yue, Xiaomeng Chang

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Abstract

Physical location is an important characteristic for digital individuals, as it is widely used in location based services, such as navigation, advertisements, and recommendations. This paper focuses on the problem of inferring individual physical locations from their friendships in a social network. We represent individual locations with a few high frequency places to eliminate the noise influence. By using of interactions between users, a spatial based inferring model is developed to directly estimate individual physical locations. The spatial weighted clustering method is used by considering the structure of interactions between friends. Data from Tencent, the biggest social network service provider in China, is used to conduct an experiment to validate the performance of the proposed inferring framework. Results indicate the framework can predict individual locations within 15 km in distance error with the accuracy of 68%.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 23rd International Conference on Geoinformatics 2015, Geoinformatics 2015
Editors	Shixiong Hu, Xinyue Ye
Publisher	IEEE
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781467376631, 9781467376624
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2015.7378565
Publication status	Published - 19 Jun 2015
Event	23rd International Conference on Geoinformatics, Geoinformatics 2015 - Wuhan, China Duration: 19 Jun 2015 → 21 Jun 2015

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Name	International Conference on Geoinformatics
ISSN (Print)	2161-024X
ISSN (Electronic)	2161-0258

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Conference	23rd International Conference on Geoinformatics, Geoinformatics 2015
Country/Territory	China
City	Wuhan
Period	19/06/15 → 21/06/15

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data mining
friendship
Physical location
social network
spatial cluster

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Zhou, M, Tu, W, Li, Q, Yue, Y & Chang, X 2015, Inferring individual physical locations with social friendships. in S Hu & X Ye (eds), Proceedings - 23rd International Conference on Geoinformatics 2015, Geoinformatics 2015. International Conference on Geoinformatics, IEEE, 23rd International Conference on Geoinformatics, Geoinformatics 2015, Wuhan, China, 19/06/15. https://doi.org/10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2015.7378565

Inferring individual physical locations with social friendships. / Zhou, Meng; Tu, Wei; Li, Qingquan et al.
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