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Some existing work has addressed the data sparsity problem of collaborative filtering by incorporating contextual information into the model. However, they ignore the sequence relationship contained in the user\u2019s historical check-in records, which makes it difficult to accurately model the user\u2019s preference and affects the final recommendation results. To acquire users\u2019 preference for a location more accurately, this paper proposes a new POI recommendation framework exploiting sequential, category, and geographical influence. Firstly, we obtain the latent vector of POI and the latent vector of the user\u2019s preference for POI from the user\u2019s check-in sequence based on the word embedding model. Next, a virtual common access sequence for users is constructed according to the user\u2019s check-ins, a new similarity computation method is present combining category differentiation and POI latent vector. Then, we apply it to the collaborative filtering framework to get the user\u2019s behavioral preference probability of POI. In addition, the kernel density estimation method is employed to get the user\u2019s geographical preference probability of POI by considering the geographical influence. Finally, the POI recommendation list is obtained by the weighted fusion of the two users\u2019 preference probability to improve the performance of the POI recommendation. Experimental results on two datasets indicate that the proposed method has better performance in terms of three evaluation metrics than the other five POI recommendation methods.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijgi11020080","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,20]],"date-time":"2022-01-20T22:40:20Z","timestamp":1642718420000},"page":"80","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":20,"title":["A Point-of-Interest Recommendation Method Exploiting Sequential, Category and Geographical Influence"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2953-1983","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xican","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Software, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China"}]},{"given":"Yanheng","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Symbolic Computation and Knowledge Engineering of Ministry of Education, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1890-7033","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xu","family":"Zhou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Symbolic Computation and Knowledge Engineering of Ministry of Education, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China"},{"name":"Center for Computer Fundamental Education, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China"}]},{"given":"Xueying","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Computer Science and Technology, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China"}]},{"given":"Zhaoqi","family":"Leng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Software, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,1,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"454","DOI":"10.1016\/j.neucom.2021.09.056","article-title":"Real-time POI recommendation via modeling long- and short-term user preferences","volume":"467","author":"Liu","year":"2022","journal-title":"Neurocomputing"},{"key":"ref_2","first-page":"1","article-title":"Fused matrix factorization with geographical and social influence in location-based social networks","volume":"Volume 26","author":"Cheng","year":"2012","journal-title":"Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence"},{"key":"ref_3","unstructured":"Salakhutdinov, R., and Mnih, A. 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