Identifying a preferable route is an important problem that finds applications in map services.
When a user plans a trip within a city, the user may want to find" a most popular route such …

Location-based social networks grow at a remarkable pace. Current location-aware mobile
devices enable us to access these networks from anywhere and to connect to friends via …

The preferences of users are important in route search and planning. Users may also weight
their preferences differently. For example, when a user plans a trip within a city, their …

With the advances in geo-positioning technologies and location-based services, it is
nowadays quite common for road networks to have textual contents on the vertices. Previous …

Route search and planning have been playing an important role in spatial data
management and location-based social services. In this light, we conduct a survey on …

Given a set of spatial points DS, each of which is associated with categorical information, eg,
restaurant, pub, etc., the optimal route query finds the shortest path that starts from the query …

A route search is an enhancement of an ordinary geographic search. Instead of merely
returning a set of entities, the result is a route that goes via entities that are relevant to the …

The existing works on spatial keyword search focus on finding a group of spatial objects
covering all the query keywords and minimizing the diameter of the group. However, we …

A group of friends located at their working places may want to plan a trip to visit a shopping
center, have dinner at a restaurant, watch a movie at a theater, and then finally return to their …

Planning a personalized itinerary for an unfamiliar region requires much effort to design
desirable travel plans. With the rapid development of location-based social network (LBSN) …