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What is Location-Based Services (LBSs)

Chapter 13
Handbook of Research on Mobility and Computing: Evolving Technologies and Ubiquitous Impacts
Prepare location-centric information and deliver information to user’s current location. Geo-positioning sensors, to determine user’s current location, and wireless communications, to deliver information, are the most important components of LBSs.
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Mobile Location-Based Recommender: An Advertisement Case Study
Mahsa Ghafourian (University of Pittsburgh, USA) and Hassan A. Karimi (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Copyright: © 2011 |Pages: 13
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-042-6.ch013
Abstract
Mobile devices, including cell phones, capable of geo-positioning (or localization) are paving the way for new computer assisted systems called mobile location-based recommenders (MLBRs). MLBRs are systems that combine information on user’s location with information about user’s interests and requests to provide recommendations that are based on “location”. MLBR applications are numerous and emerging. One MLBR application is in advertisement where stores announce their coupons and users try to find the coupons of their interests nearby their locations through their cell phones. This chapter discusses the concept and characteristics of MLBRs and presents the architecture and components of a MLBR for advertisement.
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Chapter 29
E-Knowledge
A new generation of telematic services based on the capabilities of wireless networks, or of the global positioning system (GPS), and mobile communication devices (or other radiofrequency sensitive devices). LBSs are able to detect and react to the (geo)location of the user and accordingly trigger a service of some kind.
Published in Chapter: E-Knowledge; From: Encyclopedia of Information Communication Technology
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Chapter 94
Design and Implementation of a Location-Based Service With Emphasis on a Geographical Database
A location-based service is a service based on the geographical position of a mobile handheld device. One of the LBS examples is to find a nearby ethnic restaurant by using a smartphone.
Published in Chapter: Design and Implementation of a Location-Based Service With Emphasis on a Geographical Database; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fifth Edition
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Chapter 19
CampusLocator: A Mobile Location-Based Service for Learning Resources
prepare location-centric information and deliver information to user’s current location. Geo-positioning sensors, to determine user’s current location, and wireless communications, to deliver information, are the most important components of LBSs.
Published in Chapter: CampusLocator: A Mobile Location-Based Service for Learning Resources; From: Handbook of Research on Mobility and Computing: Evolving Technologies and Ubiquitous Impacts
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