Abstract
Temporary mobile social networks has been used at hotels, concerts, theme parks, and sports arenas, where people form a mobile social group for a short time with a common interest or activity. People confined to such specific places or activities are allowed to join the temporary mobile social networks using their main social network accounts (e.g., Foursquare, Facebook). Users registered for the same business/research conference may have common connections and thus may be willing to travel together in the conference city. Traveling with temporal friends can improve the mobile users' experiences as well as help them save money. Currently, renting cars to travel around becomes very general, and one car usually can contain at least four guests. Therefore, traveling with temporal friends can help those guests save their travel cost, such as renting cost and oil cost. To this end, in this paper, we propose a group-wise itinerary planning framework to improve the mobile users' experiences. The experiment results over real data sets illustrate the effectiveness of our proposed framework.
Highlights
The concept of temporary mobile social networks has been used at hotels, concerts, theme parks, and sports arenas, where people form a mobile social group for a short time with a common interest or activity
People confined to such specific places or activities are allowed to join the temporary mobile social networks using their main social network accounts (e.g., Foursquare, Facebook)
We propose a framework designed for temporary mobile social networks to suggest group-wise itinerary plans
Summary
The concept of temporary mobile social networks has been used at hotels, concerts, theme parks, and sports arenas, where people form a mobile social group for a short time with a common interest or activity. Y. Yin et al.: Group-Wise Itinerary Planning in Temporary Mobile Social Network TABLE 1. Putting guests with very different interest preferences into the same group is not a good choice, as their requirements cannot be satisfied along a single itinerary To this end, we propose a framework designed for temporary mobile social networks to suggest group-wise itinerary plans. We propose a framework designed for temporary mobile social networks to suggest group-wise itinerary plans In this framework, when a guest registers at a conference/meeting, the hotel will collect his available time periods for traveling and interest preferences. We propose the group-wise itinerary planning framework, which can be used to improve the traveling experiments of users in a mobile social-temporal network.
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