Next Place Prediction: A Systematic Literature Review

Abstract

In this systematic literature review an overview of the recent developments in the field of Next Place Prediction is given. Next Place Prediction in this work refers to the prediction of where an individual human will go to next, based on continuous mobility data. It is therefore distinguished from other work in the field of next place prediction that uses, for example check-in data. This review aims to answer the following four questions: (1) Which features are used? (2) Which input data is required? (3) Which technique is used? (4) How is the prediction evaluated?