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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...