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