LBSN 2013 - Workshop on Location-Based Social Networks (LBSN)

The objective of this workshop is to provide professionals, researchers, and technologists with a single forum where they can discuss and share the state-of-the-art of LBSN development and applications, present their ideas and contributions, and set future directions in emerging innovative research for location based social networks.
Topics of Interest
Topics of interest include, but not limited to, the following aspects :
Understanding users in LBSNs
? User preference modeling
? User mobility modeling and analysis
? Real-world user activity sensing and recognition
? User similarity computing based on locations
? Link prediction and social tiers inference
? Friend recommendations and community discovery
? Expert discovery and influential person identification
? User intension understanding
Understanding locations in LBSNs
? Hot spots, significant places, and interesting locations detection
? Generic or personalized location recommendations
? Popular travel routes discovery from social media
? Trip planning and itinerary suggestion for users
? Location annotation and semantic meaning identification
? Location prediction and location privacy
? Anomaly detection and event discovery from social media
? Trajectory data mining in LBSNs
Information sharing and Data management in LBSNs
? Location and location-related data sharing
? Location and location-tagged media visualization
? Human-computer interaction in LBSNs
? Information retrieval in LBSNs.
? Data management in LBSNs.