Ranking queries report the top-K results according to a user-defined scoring function. A widely used scoring function is the weighted summation of multiple scores. Often times, u...
Mohamed A. Soliman, Ihab F. Ilyas, Davide Martinen...
Research on spatial network databases has so far considered that there is a single cost value associated with each road segment of the network. In most real-world situations, howev...
The location-aware keyword query returns ranked objects that are near a query location and that have textual descriptions that match query keywords. This query occurs inherently i...
Continuous top-k queries, which report a certain number (k) of top preferred objects from data streams, are important for a broad class of real-time applications, ranging from fi...
Di Yang, Avani Shastri, Elke A. Rundensteiner, Mat...
—In this demonstration paper, we present a powerful distributed framework for finding similar trajectories in a smartphone network, without disclosing the traces of participatin...