FAST SS-ILM: A COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT ALGORITHM to DISCOVER SOCIALLY IMPORTANT LOCATIONS

4th International GeoAdvances Workshop - GeoAdvances 2017: ISPRS Workshop on Multi-Dimensional and Multi-Scale Spatial Data Modeling -- 14 October 2017 through 15 October 2017 -- -- 131995Socially important locations are places which are frequently visited by social media users in their social media lifetime. Discovering socially important locations provide several valuable information about user behaviours on social media networking sites. However, discovering socially important locations are challenging due to data volume and dimensions, spatial and temporal calculations, location sparseness in social media datasets, and inefficiency of current algorithms. In the literature, several studies are conducted to discover important locations, however, the proposed approaches do not work in computationally efficient manner. In this study, we propose Fast SS-ILM algorithm by modifying the algorithm of SS-ILM to mine socially important locations efficiently. Experimental results show that proposed Fast SS-ILM algorithm decreases execution time of socially important locations discovery process up to 20 %. © Authors 2017.This research was supported by the Research Fund of Erciyes University, Project Number: FDK-2017-7233