Location sharing services as sensors for analyzing airports’ traffic

John Garofalakis; Ioannis Georgoulas; Andreas Komninos; Periklis Ntentopoulos; Athanasios Plessas

11th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services

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Location sharing services as sensors for analyzing airports’ traffic

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.mobiquitous.2014.257878,
    author={John Garofalakis and Ioannis Georgoulas and Andreas Komninos and Periklis Ntentopoulos and Athanasios Plessas},
    title={Location sharing services as sensors for analyzing airports’ traffic},
    proceedings={11th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services},
    publisher={ICST},
    proceedings_a={MOBIQUITOUS},
    year={2014},
    month={11},
    keywords={location sharing services foursquare check-ins ubiquitous social computing},
    doi={10.4108/icst.mobiquitous.2014.257878}
}

John Garofalakis
Ioannis Georgoulas
Andreas Komninos
Periklis Ntentopoulos
Athanasios Plessas
Year: 2014
Location sharing services as sensors for analyzing airports’ traffic
MOBIQUITOUS
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/icst.mobiquitous.2014.257878

John Garofalakis¹, Ioannis Georgoulas¹, Andreas Komninos², Periklis Ntentopoulos¹, Athanasios Plessas¹^,*

1: University of Patras
2: University of Strathclyde

*Contact email: plessas@ceid.upatras.gr

Abstract

Location sharing services can be seen as "social sensors" that provide data revealing real world interactions. In this paper, we examine the case of foursquare check-ins at airports and we show that these data can be indicative of the passengers’ traffic, while their number is hundreds of times lower than the number of actual traffic observations.

Keywords: location sharing services foursquare check-ins ubiquitous social computing

Published: 2014-11-17
Publisher: ICST

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/icst.mobiquitous.2014.257878