The role of location and social strength for friendship prediction in location-based social networks

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Highlights：

• A taxonomy for friendship prediction methods for location-based social networks is proposed.

• Five new methods for friendship prediction in location-based social networks are proposed.

• A comprehensive analysis of selected current methods on link prediction for LBSNs is carried out.

• From a set offifteen friendship prediction methods, we identified the top-5 methods with feasibility for real-world applications. Two of our proposals are in this top-5.

摘要

•A taxonomy for friendship prediction methods for location-based social networks is proposed.•Five new methods for friendship prediction in location-based social networks are proposed.•A comprehensive analysis of selected current methods on link prediction for LBSNs is carried out.•From a set offifteen friendship prediction methods, we identified the top-5 methods with feasibility for real-world applications. Two of our proposals are in this top-5.

论文关键词：Location-based social networks,Link prediction,Friendship recommendation,Human mobility,User behavior

论文评审过程：Received 21 August 2017, Revised 14 January 2018, Accepted 14 February 2018, Available online 13 March 2018, Version of Record 13 March 2018.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ipm.2018.02.004