Title
Predicting mobility events on personal devices.
Abstract
High-end mobile phones are quickly becoming versatile sensing platforms, capable of continuously capturing the dynamic context of their owners through various sensors. A change in this context is often caused by the fact that owners-and therefore the devices they carry-are moving from one place to another. In this paper, we model the sensed environment as a stream of events, and assume, given that people are creatures of habit, that time correlations exists between successive events. We propose a method for the prediction in time of the next occurrence of an event of interest, such as 'arriving at a certain location' or 'meeting with another person', with a focus on the prediction of network visibility events as observed through the wireless network interfaces of the device. Our approach is based on using other events in the stream as predictors for the event we are interested in, and, in the case of multiple predictors, applying different strategies for the selection of the best predictor. Using two real-world data sets, we found that including predictors of infrequently occurring events results in better predictions using the best selection strategy. Also, we found that cross-sensor (cross-interface) information in most cases improves the prediction performance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1016/j.pmcj.2009.11.001
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
Keywords
Field
DocType
mobile device,time series,network interface,mobility model,synthetic data,kernel density estimate,kernel density estimation,personalization
Creatures,Data mining,Wireless network,Data set,Visibility,Computer science,Context awareness,Kernel density estimation,Personalization
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
6
4
1574-1192
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
11
0.60
11
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Arjan J. H. Peddemors110810.57
Henk Eertink214625.83
Ignas Niemegeers31138106.87