Mobile Networks and Applications

Recently, more and more mobile apps are employed in the marketing field with technical advances. Mobile marketing apps have become a prevalent way for enterprise marketing. Therefore, it has been an important and urgent problem to provide personalized and accurate recommendation in mobile marketing, with a large number of items and limited capability of mobile devices. Recommendation have been investigated widely, however, most existing approaches fail to consider the stability or change of users’ behaviors over time. In this paper, we first propose to mine the periodic trends of users’ consuming behavior from historical records by KNN(K-nearest neighbor) and SVR (support vector regression) based time series prediction, and predict the next time when a user re-purchases the item, so that we can recommend the items which users have purchased before at proper time. Second, we aim to find the regularity of users’ purchasing behavior during different life stages and recommend the new items that are needed and proper for their current life stage. In order to solve this, we mine the mapping model from items to user’s life stage first. Based on the model, users’ current life stage can be estimated from their recent behaviors. Finally, users will be recommended with new items which are proper to their estimated life stage. Experimental results show that it has improved the effectiveness of recommendation obviously by mining users’ consuming behaviors with temporal evolution.