SEAGET: Seasonal and active hours guided graph enhanced transformer for the next POI recommendation

One of the most important challenges for improving personalized services in industries like tourism is predicting users’ near-future movements based on prior behavior and current circumstances. Next POI (Point of Interest) recommendation is essential for helping users and service providers by provid...

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Main Authors: Alif Al Hasan, Md. Musfique Anwar
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Published: Elsevier 2025-07-01
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description One of the most important challenges for improving personalized services in industries like tourism is predicting users’ near-future movements based on prior behavior and current circumstances. Next POI (Point of Interest) recommendation is essential for helping users and service providers by providing personalized recommendations. The intricacy of this work, however, stems from the requirement to take into consideration several variables at once, such as user preferences, time contexts, and geographic locations. POI selection is also greatly influenced by elements like a POI’s operational status during desired visit times, desirability for visiting during particular seasons, and its dynamic popularity over time. POI popularity is mostly determined by check-in frequency in recent studies, ignoring visitor volumes, operational constraints, and temporal dynamics. These restrictions result in recommendations that are less than ideal and do not take into account actual circumstances. We propose the Seasonal and Active hours-guided Graph-Enhanced Transformer (SEAGET) model as a solution to these problems. By integrating variations in the seasons, operational status, and temporal dynamics into a graph-enhanced transformer framework, SEAGET capitalizes on redefined POI popularity. This invention gives more accurate and context-aware next POI predictions, with potential applications for optimizing tourist experiences and enhancing location-based services in the tourism industry.
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spelling doaj-art-fdb2fb1d96604f38bb6abdbf1da48dde2025-08-20T02:36:58ZengElsevierArray2590-00562025-07-012610038510.1016/j.array.2025.100385SEAGET: Seasonal and active hours guided graph enhanced transformer for the next POI recommendationAlif Al Hasan0Md. Musfique Anwar1Corresponding author.; Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, BangladeshDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, BangladeshOne of the most important challenges for improving personalized services in industries like tourism is predicting users’ near-future movements based on prior behavior and current circumstances. Next POI (Point of Interest) recommendation is essential for helping users and service providers by providing personalized recommendations. The intricacy of this work, however, stems from the requirement to take into consideration several variables at once, such as user preferences, time contexts, and geographic locations. POI selection is also greatly influenced by elements like a POI’s operational status during desired visit times, desirability for visiting during particular seasons, and its dynamic popularity over time. POI popularity is mostly determined by check-in frequency in recent studies, ignoring visitor volumes, operational constraints, and temporal dynamics. These restrictions result in recommendations that are less than ideal and do not take into account actual circumstances. We propose the Seasonal and Active hours-guided Graph-Enhanced Transformer (SEAGET) model as a solution to these problems. By integrating variations in the seasons, operational status, and temporal dynamics into a graph-enhanced transformer framework, SEAGET capitalizes on redefined POI popularity. This invention gives more accurate and context-aware next POI predictions, with potential applications for optimizing tourist experiences and enhancing location-based services in the tourism industry.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590005625000128PopularitySeasonal influenceOperational timeframeNext POI recommendationTransformerGraph neural networks
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Seasonal influence
Operational timeframe
Next POI recommendation
Transformer
Graph neural networks
title SEAGET: Seasonal and active hours guided graph enhanced transformer for the next POI recommendation
title_full SEAGET: Seasonal and active hours guided graph enhanced transformer for the next POI recommendation
title_fullStr SEAGET: Seasonal and active hours guided graph enhanced transformer for the next POI recommendation
title_full_unstemmed SEAGET: Seasonal and active hours guided graph enhanced transformer for the next POI recommendation
title_short SEAGET: Seasonal and active hours guided graph enhanced transformer for the next POI recommendation
title_sort seaget seasonal and active hours guided graph enhanced transformer for the next poi recommendation
topic Popularity
Seasonal influence
Operational timeframe
Next POI recommendation
Transformer
Graph neural networks
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590005625000128
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