Efficient and effective location-aware search on social networks

该项目旨在开发、分析、实施和评估新的索引技术和算法，以支持在具有位置感知的大型社交网络上进行有效和高效的搜索。大多数现有的社交网络搜索技术都不支持或对位置感知搜索的支持非常有限。该项目希望利用用户和地点的地理信息，通过为用户提供更多相关的结果，来推进现有的社交网络搜索机制。这将对澳大利亚的社会、经济和国家安全作出重大贡献，并加强涉及使用社交网络数据的广泛应用，如营销和广告、公共卫生、旅游和运输管理。

This project aims to develop, analyse, implement, and evaluate novel indexing techniques and algorithms to support effective and efficient search on large scale social networks with location awareness. Most existing techniques for social network searches do not support or have very limited support for location-aware searches. The project expects to utilise the geographical information of both users and locations to advance the existing social network search mechanisms by providing users more relevant results. This will significantly contribute to Australia’s society, economy, and national security and enhance a wide range of applications that involve using social networks data, such as marketing and advertising, public health, tourism and transport management.