Categories of Point of Interest (POI) facilitate location-based services from many aspects like
location search and POI recommendation. However, POI categories are often incomplete …

The prevalence of location-based services has generated a deluge of check-ins, enabling
the task of human mobility understanding. Among the various types of information …

Nowadays, mobile devices have become a ubiquitous medium supporting various forms of
functionality and are widely accepted for commons. In this study, we investigate using Wi-Fi …

The categories of venues are labels, such as Museum and Bar, assigned to geographic
locations. They are often incomplete and new venues may constantly arise, making …

The proliferation of location-based social networks, makes it possible to record human
mobility using an array of points-of-interest (POIs). Exploring the semantic meanings of POIs …

The popularity of smart mobile devices generated data, eg, check-ins and geo-tagged
status, offers new opportunity for better understanding human mobility regularity. Existing …

Research on mining data collected from smartphones has received tremendous interests in
the past few years. While significant research efforts have been made on mining various …

Location is a major aspect behind many approaches in Information Retrieval, naturally
appearing in diverse forms and as a cross-cutting topic. To give the location topic an …

The LocWeb 2014 workshop continues a successful workshop series at the intersection of
geospatial search, information management, and Web architecture with a focus towards …

Although research community have put lots of effort in improving localization in indoor
environment through various of sensing techniques, outdoor localization still heavily relies …