A probabilistic approach to mining mobile phone data sequences

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 223-238

  Farrahi, Katayoun ^a   Gatica Perez, Daniel ^b,c  

^a JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^b IDIAP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCATION; STATISTICS;

GENERATIVE PROCESS; LATENT DIRICHLET ALLOCATIONS; LOCATION-SENSING; MOBILE PHONE DATASETS; MOBILE PHONE DATUM; PROBABILISTIC APPROACHES; PROBABILISTIC TOPIC MODELS; SEQUENTIAL INFORMATION;

CELLULAR TELEPHONES;

EID: 84891885958     PISSN: 16174909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00779-013-0640-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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