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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">109</journal-id>
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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title xml:lang="en">jucs</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">0948-695X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">0948-6968</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Journal of Universal Computer Science</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3217/jucs-022-08-1148</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">23430</article-id>
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        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Research Article</subject>
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          <subject>H.3.3 - Information Search and Retrieval</subject>
          <subject>H.4 - INFORMATION SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS</subject>
          <subject>L.2.2 - Personalization and Profiling</subject>
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        <article-title>Boosting Point-of-Interest Recommendation with Multigranular Time Representations</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Rojas</surname>
            <given-names>Gonzalo</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:type="simple">gonzalorojas@udec.cl</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Seco</surname>
            <given-names>Diego</given-names>
          </name>
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        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Serrano</surname>
            <given-names>Francisco</given-names>
          </name>
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        </contrib>
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      <aff id="A1">
        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">University of Concepción, Concepción, Chile</addr-line>
        <institution>University of Concepción</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Concepción</addr-line>
        <country>Chile</country>
      </aff>
      <author-notes>
        <fn fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Corresponding author: Gonzalo Rojas (<email xlink:type="simple">gonzalorojas@udec.cl</email>).</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by">
          <p>Academic editor: </p>
        </fn>
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      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2016</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>01</day>
        <month>08</month>
        <year>2016</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>22</volume>
      <issue>8</issue>
      <fpage>1148</fpage>
      <lpage>1174</lpage>
      <uri content-type="arpha" xlink:href="http://openbiodiv.net/DF3D6330-DCD1-56C4-9AB2-375E13621402">DF3D6330-DCD1-56C4-9AB2-375E13621402</uri>
      <uri content-type="zenodo_dep_id" xlink:href="https://zenodo.org/record/5505449">5505449</uri>
      <history>
        <date date-type="received">
          <day>31</day>
          <month>05</month>
          <year>2016</year>
        </date>
        <date date-type="accepted">
          <day>15</day>
          <month>10</month>
          <year>2016</year>
        </date>
      </history>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>Gonzalo Rojas, Diego Seco, Francisco Serrano</copyright-statement>
        <license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="" xlink:type="simple">
          <license-p>This article is freely available under the J.UCS Open Content License.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <label>Abstract</label>
        <p>Technologies of recommender systems are being increasingly adopted by Location Based Social Networks (LBSNs) with the purpose of recommending Pointsof-Interest (POIs) to their users, and different contextual characteristics have been incorporated to enhance this process. Among these characteristics, the time at which users express their preferences (typically, by checking-in to different POIs) and ask for recommendations, is frequently referred as a first-order feature in this process. However, even when its influence on improving the accuracy of recommendations has been empirically demonstrated, time is still mainly considered through a monogranular representation (one-hour or one-day blocks). In this article, we introduce a POI recommendation approach based on a multigranular characterization of time, composed of hour, day-of-the-week, and month. Based on this concept, we propose two representations of user check-ins: one that directly extends a monogranular proposal of time for POI recommendations, and other based on a statistical representation of check-in distributions in time. For both representations, corresponding algorithms to compute user similarity and preference prediction are introduced. The experimental evaluation shows promising results in terms of accuracy and scalability.</p>
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