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GIS
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Mining frequent geographic patterns with knowledge constraints
The large amount of patterns generated by frequent pattern mining algorithms has been extensively addressed in the last few years. In geographic pattern mining, besides the large ...
Luis Otávio Alvares, Paulo Martins Engel, S...
GIS
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Analyzing theme, space, and time: an ontology-based approach
The W3C's Semantic Web Activity is illustrating the use of semantics for information integration, search, and analysis. However, the majority of the work in this community ha...
Matthew Perry, Farshad Hakimpour, Amit P. Sheth
GIS
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Recognition of island structures for map generalization
In this paper we describe work on the automatic recognition of island structures. In an initial phase several test persons were asked to mark groups of islands that they perceived...
Stefan Steiniger, Dirk Burghardt, Robert Weibel
GIS
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Entity resolution in geospatial data integration
Vivek Sehgal, Lise Getoor, Peter Viechnicki
GIS
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Distance join queries on spatial networks
The result of a distance join operation on two sets of objects R, S on a spatial network G is a set P of object pairs <p, q>, p R, q S such that the distance of an object ...
Jagan Sankaranarayanan, Houman Alborzi, Hanan Same...
GIS
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Preserving local topological relationships
Topological relationships between objects in space are of great importance in many disciplines. Recently, topological relationships have been defined for complex spatial objects. ...
Mark McKenney, Alejandro Pauly, Reasey Praing, Mar...
GIS
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Exploiting a page-level upper bound for multi-type nearest neighbor queries
Given a query point and a collection of spatial features, a multi-type nearest neighbor (MTNN) query finds the shortest tour for the query point such that only one instance of eac...
Xiaobin Ma, Shashi Shekhar, Hui Xiong, Pusheng Zha...
GIS
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Modeling and querying uncertain spatial information for situational awareness applications
Situational awareness (SA) applications monitor the real world and the entities therein to support tasks such as rapid decision-making, reasoning, and analysis. Raw input about un...
Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Yiming Ma, Sharad Mehrotra,...
GIS
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Index for fast retrieval of uncertain spatial point data
Location information gathered from a variety of sources in the form of sensor data, video streams, human observations, and so on, is often imprecise and uncertain and needs to be ...
Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Yiming Ma, Sharad Mehrotra,...
GIS
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Efficient GML-native processors for web-based GIS: techniques and tools
Geography Markup Language (GML) is an XML-based language for the markup, storage, and exchange of geospatial data. It provides a rich geospatial vocabulary and allows flexible doc...
Chia-Hsin Huang, Tyng-Ruey Chuang, Dong-Po Deng, H...