Tips, dones and todos: Uncovering user profiles in Foursquare

WSDM 2012 - Proceedings of the 5th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 653-662

  Vasconcelos, Marisa ^a   Ricci, Saulo ^a   Almeida, Jussara ^a   Benevenuto, Fabrício ^b   Almeida, Virgílio ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF OURO PRETO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Location based social net works; Spamming; User behavior characterization

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SHARING; LOCATION BASED; SOCIAL NETWORKS; USER BEHAVIORS; USER FEEDBACK; USER PROFILE;

DATA MINING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SPAMMING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84858022161     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2124295.2124372     Document Type: Conference Paper

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