LBSN 2012 - Workshop on Location-Based Social Networks (LBSN 2012)

The advances in location-acquisition and mobile communication technologies foster location-based social networks (LBSNs), where people can share location-related information and expand their social structure with the interdependency derived from their locations. As location is one of the most important components of user context, extensive knowledge about an individual's interests, behaviors, and relationships with others can be learned from her locations. LBSNs enable many novel applications that change the way we live, such as travel planning, location recommendations, friend suggestion, and community discovery, while offering many new research opportunities to the community, including link prediction, human mobility modeling, and user activity recognition, privacy, and computer human interaction. The objective of this workshop is to provide professionals and researchers with a single forum where they can discuss and share the state-of-the-art of LBSNs development and applications, present their ideas and contributions, and set future directions in emerging innovative research for LBSNs.