Utilizing Context for Novel Point of Interest Recommendation

• Author / Creator

  Morawski, Jason M

• Recommender systems are a modern solution for suggesting new items to users. One of their uses is for novel point of interest recommendation, recommending locations to a user which they have not visited. This can be applied to a location-based social network, which contains information about their users' travel history and social connections. Within this context, there are various challenges, such as data sparsity, that limit recommendation effectiveness. We propose an algorithm for personalized novel point of interest recommendation to overcome these challenges. Our solution leverages social, temporal, and spatial context, together with collaborative filtering and a classification algorithm.

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Collaborative Filtering
  • Recommender Systems
  • Location-Based Social Network

• Graduation date

  Fall 2017

• Type of Item

  Thesis

• Degree

  Master of Science

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3RV0DD90

• License

  This thesis is made available by the University of Alberta Libraries with permission of the copyright owner solely for non-commercial purposes. This thesis, or any portion thereof, may not otherwise be copied or reproduced without the written consent of the copyright owner, except to the extent permitted by Canadian copyright law.