Spatio-Temporal Modeling of Users' Check-ins in Location-Based Social Networks

Understand

Social networks are getting closer to our real physical world.

• People share the exact location and time of their check-ins and are influenced by their friends.
• Modeling the spatio-temporal behavior of users in social networks is of great importance for predicting the future behavior of users, controlling the users' movements, and finding the latent influence network.
• It is observed that users have periodic patterns in their movements.