Abstract
Chain businesses have been dominating the market in many parts of the world. It is important to identify the optimal locations for a new chain store. Recently, numerous studies have been done on chain store location recommendation. These studies typically learn a model based on the features of existing chain stores in the city and then predict what other sites are suitable for running a new one. However, these models do not work when a chain enterprise wants to open business in a new city where there is not enough data about this chain store. To solve the cold-start problem, we propose CityTransfer, which transfers chain store knowledge from semantically-relevant domains (e.g., other cities with rich knowledge, similar chain enterprises in the target city) for chain store placement recommendation in a new city. In particular, CityTransfer is a two-fold knowledge transfer framework based on collaborative filtering, which consists of the transfer rating prediction model, the inter-city knowledge association method and the intra-city semantic extraction method. Experiments using data of chain hotels from four different cities crawled from Ctrip (a popular travel reservation website in China) and the urban characters extracted from several other data sources validate the effectiveness of our approach on store site recommendation.
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