Mining sequential association rules for traveler context prediction

  • Authors:
  • Chad A. Williams;Abolfazl (Kouros) Mohammadian;Peter C. Nelson;Sean T. Doherty

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Illinois at Chicago;University of Illinois at Chicago;University of Illinois at Chicago;Wilfrid Laurier University

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 5th Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking, and Services
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Recent work has focused on creating models for generating traveler behavior for micro simulations. With the increase in hand held computers and GPS devices, there is likely to be an increasing demand for extending this idea to predicting an individual's future travel plans for devices such as a smart traveler's assistant. In this work, we introduce a technique based on sequential data mining for predicting multiple aspects of an individual's next activity using a combination of user history and their similarity to other travelers. The proposed technique is empirically shown to perform better than more traditional approaches to this problem.