A number of sensor applications in recent years collect data which can be directly
associated with human interactions. Some examples of such applications include GPS …

In the face of massive data on the Internet, users often “lost themselves”. Personalized
recommendation technology has made breakthroughs in areas such as e-commerce …

The proliferation of GPS-enabledmobile devises and the popularity of social networking
have recently led to the rapid growth of Geo-Social Networks (GeoSNs). GeoSNs have …

We investigate the problem of processing a large amount of continuous spatial-keyword
queries over streaming data, which is essential in many applications such as location-based …

The needs set forth hereinas well as further and other needs and advantages are addressed
by the present embodiments, which illustrate solutions and advantages described below …

With the popularity of mobile devices and the quick growth of the mobile Web, users can
now browse news wherever they want; so, their news preferences are usually related to their …

The interest of users in handheld devices is strongly related to their location. Therefore, the
user location is important, as a user context, for news article recommendation in a mobile …

In this paper, we propose a new location-aware pub/sub system, Elaps, that continuously
monitors moving users subscribing to dynamic event streams from social media and E …

Location factor of recommender systems has been extensively studied in the past decade.
However, there is no research thoroughly analyzing location's role in news …

Many applications need to process massive streams of spatio-textual data in real-time
against continuous spatio-textual queries. For example, in location-aware ad targeting …