Mining user behaviours: A study of check-in patterns in Location Based Social Networks

Proceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Web Science Conference, WebSci'13

Volumn volume, Issue , 2013, Pages 306-315

  Preoţiuc Pietro, Daniel ^a   Cohn, Trevor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clustering; Data mining; Foursquare; Location Based Social Networks; Mobility patterns; Social networks; User behaviour; User movement prediction

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

CLUSTERING; FOURSQUARE; LOCATION-BASED SOCIAL NETWORKS; MOBILITY PATTERN; USER BEHAVIOUR; USER MOVEMENT;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84883083836     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2464464.2464479     Document Type: Conference Paper

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