Crowd-centric research is receiving increasingly more attention as datasets on crowd
behavior are becoming readily available. We have come to a point where many of the …

In this work, we use foursquare check-ins to cluster users via topic modeling, a technique
commonly used to classify text documents according to latent" themes". Here, however, the …

There is relatively little work on the investigation of large-scale human data in terms of
multimodality for human activity discovery. In this paper, we suggest that human interaction …

(57) ABSTRACT A method and apparatus for generating and using location information is
provided to a user of a mobile device. The method involves obtaining and processing a …

Taxis provide a type of on-demand mobility service in urban transportation. There are
growing concerns regarding the level of service of taxis in satisfying residents' mobility …

Thousands of taxis cruise a metropolitan road network looking for passengers that may be
scattered or clustered in highly active locations. Taxicab drivers tend to gravitate to the …

While analysis of urban commuting data has a long and demonstrated history of providing
useful insights into human mobility behavior, such analysis has been performed largely in …

We propose a system that recommends tourist attractions based on the moment that the user
visits a given city. We start from a large collection of georeferenced photos on Flickr, and use …

Travelling by taxi is more convenient and effective. With an overcrowding population and a
much terrible traffic, the traditional way of hailing a taxi encounters many challenges like …

Abstract Modern ICT (Information and Communication Technology) has developed a vision
where the “computer” is no longer associated with the concept of a single device or a …