Mining Location Influence for Location Promotion in Location-Based Social Networks

The Influence of Location on Nodes’ Centrality in Location-Based Social Networks

Nowadays, due to the widespread use of social networks, they can be used as a convenient, low-cost, and affordable tool for disseminating all kinds of information and data among the massive users of these networks. Issues such as marketing for new products, informing the public in critical situations, and disseminating medical and technological innovations are topics that have been considered b...

LoCaTe: Influence Quantification for Location Promotion in Location-based Social Networks

Location-based social networks (LBSNs) such as Foursquare offer a platform for users to share and be aware of each other’s physical movements. As a result of such a sharing of check-in information with each other, users can be influenced to visit at the locations visited by their friends. Quantifying such influences in these LBSNs is useful in various settings such as location promotion, person...

fault location in power distribution networks using matching algorithm

چکیده رساله/پایان نامه : تاکنون روش‏های متعددی در ارتباط با مکان یابی خطا در شبکه انتقال ارائه شده است. استفاده مستقیم از این روش‏ها در شبکه توزیع به دلایلی همچون وجود انشعاب‏های متعدد، غیر یکنواختی فیدرها (خطوط کابلی، خطوط هوایی، سطح مقطع متفاوت انشعاب ها و تنه اصلی فیدر)، نامتعادلی (عدم جابجا شدگی خطوط، بارهای تک‏فاز و سه فاز)، ثابت نبودن بار و اندازه گیری مقادیر ولتاژ و جریان فقط در ابتدای...

User's Location Prediction in Location-based Social Networks

Location-Based Social Networks: Locations

While chapter 8 studies the research philosophy behind a location-based social network (LBSN) from the point of view of users, this chapter gradually explores the research into LBSNs from the perspective of locations. A series of research topics are presented, with respect to mining the collective social knowledge from many users’ GPS trajectories to facilitate travel. On the one hand, the gene...