Title
Exploiting Spatio-Temporal User Behaviors for User Linkage.
Abstract
Cross-device and cross-domain user linkage have been attracting a lot of attention recently. An important branch of the study is to achieve user linkage with spatio-temporal data generated by the ubiquitous GPS-enabled devices. The main task in this problem is twofold, i.e., how to extract the representative features of a user; how to measure the similarities between users with the extracted features. To tackle the problem, we propose a novel model STUL (Spatio-Temporal User Linkage) that consists of the following two components. 1) Extract users - spatial features with a density based clustering method, and extract the users - temporal features with the Gaussian Mixture Model. To link user pairs more precisely, we assign different weights to the extracted features, by lightening the common features and highlighting the discriminative features. 2) Propose novel approaches to measure the similarities between users based on the extracted features, and return the pair-wise users with similarity scores higher than a predefined threshold. We have conducted extensive experiments on three real-world datasets, and the results demonstrate the superiority of our proposed STUL over the state-of-the-art methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1145/3132847.3132898
CIKM
Keywords
Field
DocType
Cross-domain, User linkage, Spatio-temporal behaviors
Data mining,Computer science,Cluster analysis,Discriminative model,Mixture model
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-4918-5
7
0.45
References 
Authors
18
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wei Chen11711246.70
Hongzhi Yin2136475.83
Weiqing Wang329815.69
Lei Zhao4186.71
Wen Hua514415.66
Xiaofang Zhou65381342.70