Mining correlation between locations using human location history

  • Authors:
  • Yu Zheng;Lizhu Zhang;Xing Xie;Wei-Ying Ma

  • Affiliations:
  • Microsoft Research Asia, Haidian District, Beijing, China;Microsoft Research Asia, Haidian District, Beijing, China;Microsoft Research Asia, Haidian District, Beijing, China;Microsoft Research Asia, Haidian District, Beijing, China

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The advance of location-acquisition technologies enables people to record their location histories with spatio-temporal datasets, which imply the correlation between geographical regions. This correlation indicates the relationship between locations in the space of human behavior, and can enable many valuable services, such as sales promotion and location recommendation. In this paper, by taking into account a user's travel experience and the sequentiality locations have been visited, we propose an approach to mine the correlation between locations from a large number of users' location histories. We conducted a personalized location recommendation system using the location correlation, and evaluated this system with a large-scale real-world GPS dataset. As a result, our method outperforms the related work using the Pearson correlation.