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WWW
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Find me if you can: improving geographical prediction with social and spatial proximity
Geography and social relationships are inextricably intertwined; the people we interact with on a daily basis almost always live near us. As people spend more time online, data re...
Lars Backstrom, Eric Sun, Cameron Marlow
CGI
2003
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Consistent Visualization and Querying of GIS Databases by a Location-Aware Mobile Agent
Location-aware mobile users need to access, query, and visualize, geographic information in a wide variety of applications including tourism, navigation, environmental management,...
Suresh K. Lodha, Nikolai M. Faaland, Grant Wong, A...
COMPSAC
1997
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
A content-based search engine on medical images for telemedicine
Retrieving images by content and forming visual queries are important functionality of an image database system. Using textual descriptions to specify queries on image content is ...
David Wai-Lok Cheung, Chi-Hung Lee, Vincent T. Y. ...
SIGMOD
2012
ACM
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11 years 7 months ago
Sindbad: a location-based social networking system
This demo presents Sindbad; a location-based social networking system. Sindbad supports three new services beyond traditional social networking services, namely, location-aware ne...
Mohamed Sarwat, Jie Bao 0003, Ahmed Eldawy, Justin...
GIS
2006
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
A peer-to-peer spatial cloaking algorithm for anonymous location-based service
This paper tackles a major privacy threat in current location-based services where users have to report their exact locations to the database server in order to obtain their desir...
Chi-Yin Chow, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Xuan Liu