A Novel Multi-Layer Classification Ensemble Approach for Location Prediction of Social Users

Information-disclosure by social-users has increased enormously. Using this information for accurate location-prediction is challenging. Thus, a novel Multi-Layer Ensemble Classification scheme is proposed. It works on un-weighted/weighted majority voting, using novel weight-assignment function. Base learners are selected based on their individual performances for training the model. Main motive is to develop an efficient approach for check-ins-based location-classification of social-users. The proposed model is implemented on Foursquare datasets where a classification accuracy of 94% is achieved, which is higher than other state-of-the-art techniques. Apart from tracking locations of social-users, proposed framework can be useful for detecting malicious users present in various expert and intelligent-system.