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AMI
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Taxi-Aware Map: Identifying and Predicting Vacant Taxis in the City
Knowing where vacant taxis are and will be at a given time and location helps the users in daily planning and scheduling, as well as the taxi service providers in dispatching. In t...
Santi Phithakkitnukoon, Marco Veloso, Carlos Bento...
FLAIRS
2003
13 years 10 months ago
Spatially-Aware Information Retrieval with Graph-Based Qualitative Reference Models
Geo-referenced information is used by a growing number of “spatially-aware” tools in different application areas, including tourism, marketing, environmental management, and m...
Thomas Vögele, Christoph Schlieder
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
You are where you tweet: a content-based approach to geo-locating twitter users
We propose and evaluate a probabilistic framework for estimating a Twitter user’s city-level location based purely on the content of the user’s tweets, even in the absence of ...
Zhiyuan Cheng, James Caverlee, Kyumin Lee
WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Find me if you can: improving geographical prediction with social and spatial proximity
Geography and social relationships are inextricably intertwined; the people we interact with on a daily basis almost always live near us. As people spend more time online, data re...
Lars Backstrom, Eric Sun, Cameron Marlow
CIKM
2001
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Tempus Fugit: A System for Making Semantic Connections
Tempus Fugit (“Time Flies”) is the first of a new generation of Personal Information Management (PIM) systems. A PIM system incorporates an electronic calendar, “to-do” li...
Daniel Alexander Ford, Joann Ruvolo, Stefan Edlund...