Local search has become a hot topic recently in information retrieval research area. How to retrieve geographical information correctly and efficiently is a key challenge to locat...
Zhisheng Li, Chong Wang 0002, Xing Xie, Xufa Wang,...
Wireless technologies are poised to bring major changes in the information infrastructure, transforming communications and facilitating information retrieval. Over the next severa...
GLS is a new distributed location service which tracks mobile node locations. GLS combined with geographic forwarding allows the construction of ad hoc mobile networks that scale ...
Jinyang Li, John Jannotti, Douglas S. J. De Couto,...
Abstract. Geographic place names are semantically often highly ambiguous. For example, there are 491 places in Finland sharing the same name "Isosaari" (great island) tha...
Tomi Kauppinen, Riikka Henriksson, Reetta Sinkkil&...
In this paper, we address the problem of destination anonymity for applications in mobile ad hoc networks where geographic information is ready for use in both ad hoc routing and I...