Title
LearNext: learning to predict tourists movements
Abstract
In this paper, we tackle the problem of predicting the "next" geographical position of a tourist given her history (i.e., the prediction is done accordingly to the tourist's current trail) by means of supervised learning techniques, namely Gradient Boosted Regression Trees and Ranking SVM. The learning is done on the basis of an object space represented by a 68 dimension feature vector, specifically designed for tourism related data. Furthermore, we propose a thorough comparison of several methods that are considered state-of-the-art in touristic recommender and trail prediction systems as well as a strong popularity baseline. Experiments show that the methods we propose outperform important competitors and baselines thus providing strong evidence of the performance of our solutions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1145/2505515.2505656
IIR
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
gradient boosted regression trees,dimension feature vector,object space,current trail,ranking svm,trail prediction system,tourists movement,strong evidence,geographical position,strong popularity baseline,supervised learning technique,learning to rank
Conference
7
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.68
15
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ranieri Baraglia135234.32
Cristina Ioana Muntean2328.28
Franco Maria Nardini331436.52
Fabrizio Silvestri41819107.29