The rapid growth of location-based social networks (LBSNs) invigorates
an increasing number of LBSN users, providing an unprecedented
opportunity to study human mobile behavior from spatial,
temporal, and social aspects. Among these aspects, temporal effects
offer an essential contextual cue for inferring a user’s movement.
Strong temporal cyclic patterns have been observed in user
movement in LBSNs with their correlated spatial and social effects
(i.e., temporal correlations). It is a propitious time to model these
temporal effects (patterns and correlations) on a user’s mobile behavior.
In this paper, we present the first comprehensive study
of temporal effects on LBSNs. We propose a general framework
to exploit and model temporal cyclic patterns and their relationships
with spatial and social data. The experimental results on two
real-world LBSN datasets validate the power of temporal effects in
capturing user mobile behavior, and demonstrate the ability of our
framework to select the most effective location prediction algorithm
under various combinations of prediction models