Computing geographic relevance in mobile information services

This paper presents a detailed account of a computational model for the assessment of geographic relevance, which is based on our previous work on a conceptual model and criteria of geographic relevance. The computational model implements ve criteria, among those we empirically validated in an earlier publication, and it has been tested through a \user-centred" evaluation procedure presented { which is not presented in the current paper. Our aim is to foster the discussion on how to compute and combine scores to better assess the geographic component of situational relevance concepts in mobile information services.