Title
Exploiting geographical data to improve recommender systems for business opportunities in urban areas
Date Issued
01 October 2019
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Ferreira V.
Valejo A.
Valdivia P.
Departamento de Investigación Científica de Visibilia
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
The rapid urban expansion of the world's major cities has directly impacted people's lives. In the urbanization process, it is common that business shops are open to attend the different needs and demands of the increasing number of citizens. This fact represents a business issue encouraging potential investments that could be harnessed to improve both urban economic environment and quality of urban life. However, many business opportunities are lost or not exploited properly due to the difficulty that investors, business owners, and marketers have to identify the right places where to open new stores. In this paper, we describe the implementation and evaluation of an approach to identify geographic areas with great potential to host business from a specific category. First, we adapt clustering algorithms to work with geographical data and, thus, partitioning a target city into business districts. Next, we use various recommendation algorithms to suggest the best categories for each business district. We conduct several experiments on Yelp data and our results show how geographical data and state-of-the-art algorithms can be used to mine business opportunities and predict adequate places to open new stores in urban areas.
Start page
568
End page
573
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Geografía económica y cultural
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85077078495
Resource of which it is part
Proceedings - 2019 Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems, BRACIS 2019
ISBN of the container
9781728142531
Conference
8th Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems, BRACIS 2019 Salvador, Bahia 15 October 2019 through 18 October 2019
Sponsor(s)
This work was partially supported by FAPESP grants: 2017/22472-2, 2018/23195-5, 2018/23238-6, 2018/23573-0 and 2019/00282-2.
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