The evolution of mobile social networks and the availability of online check-in services, such
as Foursquare and Gowalla, have initiated a new wave of research in the area of venue …

Exponential growth of media consumption in online social networks demands effective
recommendation to improve the quality of experience especially for on-the-go mobile users …

Location-based social networks (LBSNs), such as Foursquare, fostered the emergence of
new tasks such as recommending venues a user might wish to visit. In the literature …

With the rapid advancement of Internet, e-commerce websites and social networks, people
prefer to receive recommendations from their social friends rather than strangers. Also, the …

Venue recommendation has attracted a lot of research attention with the rapid development
of Location-Based Social Networks. The effectiveness of venue recommendation largely …

Contexts and social network information have been proven to be valuable information for
building accurate recommender system. However, to the best of our knowledge, no existing …

With the rapid development of Internet applications and social networks, we have entered an
era of big data, and people are hard to effectively find the information they want. Therefore …

Social media recommendation has attracted great attention due to its wide applications in
online advertisement and entertainment, etc. Since contexts highly affect social user …

Abstract Context-Aware Venue Recommendation (CAVR) systems aim to effectively
generate a ranked list of interesting venues users should visit based on their historical …

Newly emerging location-based and event-based social network services provide us with a
new platform to understand users' preferences based on their activity history. A user can …