Joint search by social and spatial proximity

• Main Authors: MOURATIDIS, Kyriakos, LI, Jing, TANG, Yu, MAMOULIS, Nikos
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: Data structures; Distributed databases; Educational institutions; Euclidean distance; Indexes; Social network services; Tin; Databases and Information Systems; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/2258; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/3258/viewcontent/TKDE15_SSRQ.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The diffusion of social networks introduces new challenges and opportunities for advanced services, especially so with their ongoing addition of location-based features. We show how applications like company and friend recommendation could significantly benefit from incorporating social and spatial...