A Neural Network Approach to Joint Modeling Social Networks and Mobile Trajectories

Understand

The accelerated growth of mobile trajectories in location-based services brings valuable data resources to understand users' moving behaviors.

• Apart from recording the trajectory data, another major characteristic of these location-based services is that they also allow the users to connect whomever they like.
• A combination of social networking and location-based services is called as location-based social networks (LBSN).
• As shown in previous works, locations that are frequently visited by socially-related persons tend to be correlated, which indicates the close association between social connections and trajectory behaviors of users in LBSNs.