Smartphone technology has created a burgeoning mobile location data (MLD) marketplace.
MLD has been adopted by many retailers to track consumer behaviours at a granular level …

There is little knowledge available on the spatial behaviour of urban tourists, and yet tourists
generate an enormous quantity of data when they visit cities. These data sources can be …

Crowdsourcing is a process of acquisition, integration, and analysis of big and
heterogeneous data generated by a diversity of sources in urban spaces, such as sensors …

User profile learning, such as mobility and demographic profile learning, is of great
importance to various applications. Meanwhile, the rapid growth of multiple social platforms …

An emergency event is an unexceptional event that exceeds the capacity of normal
resources and organization to cope and a situation that poses an immediate risk to health …

With the rapid growth of location-based social networks (LBSNs), location recommendations
play an important role in sha** the life of individuals. Fortunately, a variety of community …

Venue category recommendation is an essential application for the tourism and
advertisement industries, wherein it may suggest attractive localities within close proximity to …

Social media data has frequently sourced research on topics such as traveller planning or
the factors that influence travel decisions. The literature on the location of tourist activities …

Delimitating trade areas is a major business concern. Today, mobile communication
technologies make it possible to use social media data for this purpose. Few studies …

With the development of Web 2.0, ubiquitous computing, and corresponding technologies,
social media has the ability to provide the concepts of information contribution, diffusion, and …