In recent years we have witnessed a flourish of location-based social media, such as Foursquare, Gowalla, Facebook Place, etc, which are collectively termed as location-based social networks (LBSNs). These services offer more location-tagged information to people, helping them to make better informed decisions on where to eat, sleep, shop and relax within the local context. The boom of LBSNs opens up a vast range of possibilities to study location-oriented human interactions and collective behaviours in an unprecedented scale. In this book, a community learning framework in LBSNs is...
In recent years we have witnessed a flourish of location-based social media, such as Foursquare, Gowalla, Facebook Place, etc, which are collectively ...