Location-Based Social Networks
Springer briefs in electrical and computer engineeringPublished 1 January 2014
Panagiotis Symeonidis, Dimitrios Ntempos, Yannis Manolopoulos
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There is an economic and social report regarding LBSNs, which aims to investigate the field under a different, more market oriented prism, and an example of how a recommender system can benefit an LBSN.
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Location-based Social Networks (LBSNs) can be considered as a special Online Social Network (OSN) category. Actually, an LBSN has the same OSN's properties, but considers location as the core object of its structure. This chapter initially provides some definitions and basic services that are offered by LBSNs, a brief literature review, and two commercial paradigms of LBSNs. Additionally, a few location-based research projects are presented. Moreover, there is an economic and social report regarding LBSNs, which aims to investigate the field under a different, more market oriented prism. The last section provides an example of how a recommender system can benefit an LBSN.
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