Location-based information contained in publicly available GIS databases is invaluable for many applications such as disaster response, national infrastructure protection, crime a...
Many applications require finding objects closest to a specified location that contains a set of keywords. For example, online yellow pages allow users to specify an address and a ...
Users who are unfamiliar with database query languages can search XML data sets using keyword queries. Current approaches for supporting such queries are either for textcentric XM...
The development of areas such as remote and airborne sensing, location based services, and geosensor networks enables the collection of large volumes of spatial data. These datase...
— Location-based services (LBS) have been widely accepted by mobile users. Many LBS users have direction-aware search requirement that answers must be in a search direction. Howe...