Online social networks (OSN) are becoming an indispensable part of everyday life. Apart
from allowing various users to perform a vast amount of conventional sharing per second …

With location-based social network (LBSN) flourishing, location check-in records offer us
sufficient information resource to do relative mining. Among locations visited by a user, those …

Today, with the expansion of online social networks and their impact on various aspects of
human life, investigating the interactions between users and identifying influential users for …

Location-based social networks (LBSNs) not only offer novel services but also produce more
abundant data to help new serves for human. It will help discover latent trajectory, possible …

In recent years, location-based social networking services (LBSNSs) have become popular,
generating a huge volume of geo-social networking data, such as check-in records and geo …

With the increasing popularity of location-based social networks (LBSNs), an increasing
number of people are sharing their locations with friends through check-in activities. Point-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 …

With the increasing popularity of location-based social networks, a large number of users
have been involved in the check-ins. The venues where the user frequently repeats check …

Over the last three years of my graduate school time at Grenoble Informatics Laboratory, I
have learned wonderful things, not only about science, but also about the life. I must say that …

Technologies are increasingly taking advantage of the explosion of social media (eg, web
searches, ad targeting, personalized geo-social recommendations, urban computing) …