Query Processing of Geosocial Data in Location-Based Social Networks

Bibliographic Data

ID22032426
AuthorsArianna D’ulizia (0000-0002-7565-5963, Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies), Patrizia Grifoni (0000-0003-4298-5437, Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies), Fernando Ferri (0000-0001-9963-3315, Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume11
Issue1
Pages19
Publication date2021-12-30
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2220-9964 • E-ISSN: 2220-9964
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/ijgi11010019
OpenAlexW4205189454
LanguageEN
References cited71

The increasing use of social media and the recent advances in geo-positioning technologies have produced a great amount of geosocial data, consisting of spatial, textual, and social information, to be managed and queried. In this paper, we focus on the issue of query processing by providing a systematic literature review of geosocial data representations, query processing methods, and evaluation approaches published over the last two decades (2000–2020). The result of our analysis shows the categories of geosocial queries proposed by the surveyed studies, the query primitives and the kind of access method used to retrieve the result of the queries, the common evaluation metrics and datasets used to evaluate the performance of the query processing methods, and the main open challenges that should be faced in the near future. Due to the ongoing interest in this research topic, the results of this survey are valuable to many researchers and practitioners by gaining an in-depth understanding of the geosocial querying process and its applications and possible future perspectives

Data mining · Data science · Information retrieval · Social media · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Data Management and Algorithms · Geographic Information Systems Studies · Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis