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Hoodsquare: Modeling and Recommending Neighborhoods in Location-based Social Networks
Amy X. Zhang, Anastasios Noulas, Salvatore Scellato +1
Information garnered from activity on location-based social networks can be harnessed to characterize urban spaces and organize them into neighborhoods. In this work, we adopt a da…
A place-focused model for social networks in cities
Chloë Brown, Anastasios Noulas, Cecilia Mascolo +1
The focused organization theory of social ties proposes that the structure of human social networks can be arranged around extra-network foci, which can include shared physical spa…
Geo-Spotting: Mining Online Location-based Services for Optimal Retail Store Placement
Dmytro Karamshuk, Anastasios Noulas, Salvatore Scellato +2
The problem of identifying the optimal location for a new retail store has been the focus of past research, especially in the field of land economy, due to its importance in the su…
Social and place-focused communities in location-based online social networks
Chloë Brown, Vincenzo Nicosia, Salvatore Scellato +2
Thanks to widely available, cheap Internet access and the ubiquity of smartphones, millions of people around the world now use online location-based social networking services. Und…