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Chapter 7
Spatiotemporal Critical Opportunity and Link
Identification for Joint Participation Scheduling
Zhixiang Fang, Shih-Lung Shaw, Wei Tu, and Qingquan Li
7.1
Background
Individuals commonly participate in work activities, social activities, and cultural
events. Joint participation is an essential part of individuals' social activities. How
to schedule spatiotemporal activities for social communication comfortably is a
key issue for human beings. To address this question, modern information and
telecommunication technologies provide diverse communication approaches to help
decision-making in activity scheduling. For example, these technologies have been
integrated to facilitate an activity-based location-based service (LBS) for travelers,
such as advanced traveler information systems (Ben-Elia and Shiftan
2010
)or
infectious disease control (Angulo et al.
2012
). Normally, to schedule comfortable
and acceptable joint participation, an LBS needs to identify critical opportunities
and links among travelers based on cost considerations like travel distance and time,
congestion, and others.
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