GeoLife2.0: A Location-Based Social Networking Service
MDM '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Tenth International Conference on Mobile Data Management: Systems, Services and Middleware
SoNavNet: a framework for social navigation networks
Proceedings of the 2009 International Workshop on Location Based Social Networks
Analysis of a Location-Based Social Network
CSE '09 Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering - Volume 04
Collaborative location and activity recommendations with GPS history data
Proceedings of the 19th international conference on World wide web
Learning Location Correlation from GPS Trajectories
MDM '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Eleventh International Conference on Mobile Data Management
Towards location-based social networking services
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Location Based Social Networks
Location recommendation for location-based social networks
Proceedings of the 18th SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems
Learning travel recommendations from user-generated GPS traces
ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST)
Recommending friends and locations based on individual location history
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB)
Sharing location in online social networks
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
Geo-social recommendations based on incremental tensor reduction and local path traversal
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Location-Based Social Networks
Computing with Spatial Trajectories
Computing with Spatial Trajectories
Sindbad: a location-based social networking system
SIGMOD '12 Proceedings of the 2012 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data
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In the current technological era the value of information sharing has emerged enormously while the contemporary phenomenon of Social Networking (SN) has provided an avenue for sharing information. The ubiquitous nature of SN services has focused mainly on "Who", "What" and "When", while the "Where" dimension has mainly been neglected. Only recently after realizing that "Where" dimension of information is present in almost 80% of any raw data, the SN platforms have started utilizing the location based information. This has led to the emergence of a new field, namely Location Based Social Networking (LBSN). A comprehensive literature review of LBSN reveals several shortcomings in both, the research and industrial implementation. One of the primary weaknesses is that the location in LBSN is being assumed and treated just as an auxiliary part of information (post, pictures, videos etc.) and not as a core element. This treatment undermines the true significance of location based information in LBSN. To overcome this limitation, current paper proposes an object based conceptual framework in which location reforms itself from a mere non-compulsory attribute of information to a completely new form i.e. an object. The location as an object will have its own attributes and associated behaviors. When this new location based information object is integrated into a LBSN platform, the interactions between location and human objects instigates, which resultantly exhibits new aspects of social and spatial communication not witnessed previously in the LBSN.