Various dedicated web services in the cyberspace, eg, social networks, e-commerce, and
instant communications, play a significant role in people's daily-life. Billions of people …

In the offline world, getting to know new people is heavily influenced by people's physical
context, that is, their current geolocation. People meet in classes, bars, clubs, public …

Identifying a set of diversified users who are local residents in a city is an important task for a
wide spectrum of applications such as target ads of local business, surveys and interviews …

In recent years, the rapid spread of smartphones has led to the increasing popularity of
Location-Based Social Networks (LBSNs). Although a number of research studies and …

This paper describes a user identification method conducted across online social networks
(OSNs) using information regarding friends' locations, in contrast to a conventional method …

Ubiquitous Internet connectivity enables users to update their Online Social Network profile
from any location and at any point in time. These, often geo-tagged, data can be used to …

With more people accessing Online Social Networks (OSN) using their mobile devices,
location-based features have become an important part of the social networking. In this …

Online social networks (OSNs) have attracted billions of users, and play an important role in
people's daily life. A user often has accounts on multiple OSN sites. In this paper, we study …

User identification across multiple datasets has a wide range of applications and there has
been an increasing set of research works on this topic during recent years. However, most of …

The rapid spread of smartphones has led to the increasing popularity of Location-Based
Social Networks (LBSNs) like Foursquare, Gowalla, Facebook Places and so on where …