With the continuous accumulation of users' check-in data, we can gradually capture users' behavior patterns and mine users' preferences. Based on this, the next point-of-interest (POI) recommendation has attracted considerable attention. Its main purpose is to simulate users' behavior habits of check-in behavior.Then, different types of context information are used to construct a personalized recommendation model. However, the users' check-in data are extremely sparse, which leads to low performance in personalized model training using recurrent neural network.Therefore, we propose a category-aware gated recurrent unit (GRU) model to mitigate the negative impact of sparse check-in data, capture long-range dependence between user check-ins and get better recommendation results of POI category. We combine the spatiotemporal information of check-in data and take the POI category as users' preference to train the model. Also, we develop an attention-based categoryaware GRU (ATCA-GRU) model for the next POI category recommendation. The ATCA-GRU model can selectively utilize the attention mechanism to pay attention to the relevant historical check-in trajectories in the check-in sequence. We evaluate ATCA-GRU using a real-world data set, named Foursquare. The experimental results indicate that our ATCA-GRU model outperforms the existing similar methods for next POI recommendation.
The Corona Virus Disease 2019 has a great impact on public health and public psychology. People stay at home for a long time and rarely go out. With the improvement of the epidemic situation, people began to go to different places to check in. To maintain public mental health, it is necessary to propose a point‐of‐interest (POI) prediction model which can mine users' interests. However, the current techniques suffer from lower precision during prediction and the practical value is poor, which is due to the sparse data of users' check‐in. Faced with this challenge, we propose an attention‐based bidirectional gated recurrent unit (GRU) model for POI category prediction (ABG_poic). We regard the user's POI category as the user's interest preference because the fuzzy POI category is easier to reflect the user's interest than the POI. This method can alleviate the data sparsity, and protect users' location privacy. Since users' preferences are variable, we utilize a bidirectional GRU to capture the dynamic dependence of users' check‐ins. Furthermore, since the neural network is similar to a “black box” in feature learning, the decision‐making stage is opaque. Thus, we combine the attention mechanism with bidirectional GRU to selectively focus on historical check‐in records, which can improve the interpretability of the model. Considering the time impact on users' check‐in, we utilize the time sliding window in the ABG_poic model. Experiments on two data sets demonstrate that our ABG_poic outperforms the comparison models for POI category prediction on sparse check‐in data.
Extensive user check-in data incorporating user preferences for location is collected through Internet of Things (IoT) devices. including cell phones and other sensing devices in Location-based Social Network (LB-SN). It can help travelling enterprises intelligently predict users' interests and preferences, provide them with scientific tourism paths and increase the enterprises income. Thus, successive Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation has become hot research topic in Augmented Intelligence of Things (AIoT). Presently, various methods have been applied to successive POI recommendations. Among them, the Recurrent Neural Network (RNN)-based approaches are committed to mining the sequence relationship between POIs, but ignore the high-order relationship between users and POIs. The Graph Neural Network (GNN)-based methods can capture the high-order connectivity, but it does not take the dynamic timeliness of POIs into account. Therefore, we propose an Interaction-enhanced and Time-aware Graph Convolution Network (ITGCN) for successive POI recommendation. Specifically, we design an improved graph convolution network for learning the dynamic representation of users and POIs. We also designed a self-attention aggregator to embed high-order connectivity into the node representation selectively. The Enterprise Management Systems (EMS) can predict the preferences of users, which is helpful for future planning and development. Finally, experimental results prove that ITGCN bring better results compared to the existing methods.
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