Your Friends Mention It. What About Visiting It?: A Mobile Social-Based Sightseeing Application

• Propose a four-stage framework for recommending multi-day travel itineraries.
• Propose four novel methods for the four stages in the proposed framework.
• Conduct an experiment to verify the applicability of the proposed framework.

This article investigates the problem of recommending multi-day travel itineraries based on multi-source online data to meet the requirements of tourists who wish to plan selection and visiting sequence of daily attractions. Current research ...

Past research has demonstrated a link between perceptions of social capital and use of the popular social network site, Facebook. Williams' Internet Social Capital Scales, based on Putnam's formulation, tap into sub-dimensions of social capital that ...

Over the past few years, the rapid growth and the exponential use of social digital media has led to an increase in popularity of social networks and the emergence of social computing. In general, social networks are structures made of social entities (...