Mining Significant Semantic Locations From GPS Data

Summary: A graph-based framework mines semantically meaningful locations from massive GPS traces, modeling location–location and user–location relationships. Random-walk significance propagation jointly ranks locations and user authority, incorporating visits, dwell time, and travel distance; validated on 100M records. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 10336
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2010
Pagerank: 5.8794105e-05
Overall Rank: 6,435 | 55.86%
DOI: 10.14778/1920841.1920968

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Authors

1. Xin Cao (Nanyang Technological University)
2. Gao Cong (Nanyang Technological University)
3. Christian S. Jensen (Aarhus University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{cao_vldb10,
        title = {{Mining Significant Semantic Locations From GPS Data}},
        author = {Cao, Xin and Cong, Gao and Jensen, Christian S.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '10},
        volume = {3},
        number = {1},
        pages = {1009--1020},
        doi = {10.14778/1920841.1920968},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1920841.1920968},
        year = {2010}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,116	STMaker–A System to Make Sense of Trajectory Data	2014	VLDB	6.358207e-05
9,199	On Repairing Timestamps for Regular Interval Time Series	2022	VLDB	5.3058708e-05
9,788	Hyper-Local, Directions-Based Ranking of Places	2011	VLDB	5.2209769e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
285	ObjectRank: Authority-Based Keyword Search in Databases	2004	VLDB	0.00022365284
291	OPTICS: Ordering Points To Identify the Clustering Structure	1999	SIGMOD	0.00022264197
1,819	Efficient Retrieval of the Top-k Most Relevant Spatial Web Objects	2009	VLDB	9.6810907e-05

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