Exploring venue popularity in Foursquare

Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 3357-3362

  Li, Yanhua ^a   Steiner, Moritz ^b   Wang, Limin ^b   Zhang, Zhi Li ^a   Bao, Jie ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCATION-BASED SOCIAL NETWORKS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84883067936     PISSN: 0743166X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/INFCOM.2013.6567164     Document Type: Conference Paper

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