Classification and prediction of users’ whereabouts patterns is important for many emerging ubiquitous computing applications. Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a powerful mechanism to extract recurrent behaviors and high-level patterns (called topics) from mobility data in an unsupervised manner. One drawback of LDA is that it is difficult to give meaningful and usable labels to the extracted topics. We present a methodology to automatically classify the topic with meaningful labels so as to support their use in applications. We also present a topic prediction mechanism to infer user’s future whereabouts on the basis of the extracted topics. Both these two mechanisms are tested and evaluated using the Reality Mining dataset consisting of a large set of continuous data on human behavior.

Classification and prediction of whereabouts patterns from the Reality Mining dataset / Ferrari, Laura; Mamei, Marco. - In: PERVASIVE AND MOBILE COMPUTING. - ISSN 1574-1192. - STAMPA. - 9:4(2013), pp. 516-527. [10.1016/j.pmcj.2012.04.002]

Classification and prediction of whereabouts patterns from the Reality Mining dataset

FERRARI, Laura;MAMEI, Marco
2013

Abstract

Classification and prediction of users’ whereabouts patterns is important for many emerging ubiquitous computing applications. Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a powerful mechanism to extract recurrent behaviors and high-level patterns (called topics) from mobility data in an unsupervised manner. One drawback of LDA is that it is difficult to give meaningful and usable labels to the extracted topics. We present a methodology to automatically classify the topic with meaningful labels so as to support their use in applications. We also present a topic prediction mechanism to infer user’s future whereabouts on the basis of the extracted topics. Both these two mechanisms are tested and evaluated using the Reality Mining dataset consisting of a large set of continuous data on human behavior.
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Classification and prediction of whereabouts patterns from the Reality Mining dataset / Ferrari, Laura; Mamei, Marco. - In: PERVASIVE AND MOBILE COMPUTING. - ISSN 1574-1192. - STAMPA. - 9:4(2013), pp. 516-527. [10.1016/j.pmcj.2012.04.002]
Ferrari, Laura; Mamei, Marco
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