Abstract. The need for location-based services has motivated an important research effort in the efficient processing of location-dependent queries. Most of the existing approaches...
The amount of available digital multimedia has seen exponential growth in recent years. While advances have been made in the indexing and searching of images and videos, less focu...
Many of the recent, and more effective, retrieval models have incorporated dependencies between the terms in the query. In this paper, we advance this query representation one st...
The demand of information services is popular in recent years. However, the requested of correct answer in a mobile environment needs to have more attentions. This is due to the sc...
Client side caching of location dependent queries is an important technique for improving performance of location-based services. Most of the existing research in this area has fo...