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2005
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Spatio-textual Indexing for Geographical Search on the Web
Many web documents refer to specific geographic localities and many people include geographic context in queries to web search engines. Standard web search engines treat the geogra...
Subodh Vaid, Christopher B. Jones, Hideo Joho, Mar...
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2005
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Constrained Shortest Path Computation
This paper proposes and solves a-autonomy and k-stops shortest path problems in large spatial databases. Given a source s and a destination d, an aautonomy query retrieves a sequen...
Manolis Terrovitis, Spiridon Bakiras, Dimitris Pap...
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2005
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Semantic Caching for Multiresolution Spatial Query Processing in Mobile Environments
Spatial data are particularly useful in mobile environments. However, due to the low bandwidth of most wireless networks, developing large spatial database applications becomes a c...
Sai Sun, Xiaofang Zhou, Heng Tao Shen
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2005
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Opportunistic Data Dissemination in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Networks
In this paper we examine the dissemination of availability reports about resources in mobile peer-to-peer networks, where moving objects communicate with each other via short-range...
A. Prasad Sistla, Ouri Wolfson, Bo Xu
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2005
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Change Detection in Time Series Data Using Wavelet Footprints
In this paper, we propose a novel approach to address the problem of change detection in time series data. Our approach is based on wavelet footprints proposed originally by the si...
Mehdi Sharifzadeh, Farnaz Azmoodeh, Cyrus Shahabi
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2005
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Topological Predicates Between Vague Spatial Objects
Topological predicates are an important element of database systems that allow manipulation of spatial data. Based on the necessity for such systems to handle uncertainty, we intro...
Alejandro Pauly, Markus Schneider
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2005
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Medoid Queries in Large Spatial Databases
Assume that a franchise plans to open k branches in a city, so that the average distance from each residential block to the closest branch is minimized. This is an instance of the ...
Kyriakos Mouratidis, Dimitris Papadias, Spiros Pap...
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2005
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Evaluation of Top-k OLAP Queries Using Aggregate R-Trees
Abstract. A top-k OLAP query groups measures with respect to some abstraction level of interesting dimensions and selects the k groups with the highest aggregate value. An example ...
Nikos Mamoulis, Spiridon Bakiras, Panos Kalnis
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2005
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Capacity Constrained Routing Algorithms for Evacuation Planning: A Summary of Results
Abstract. Evacuation planning is critical for numerous important applications, e.g. disaster emergency management and homeland defense preparation. Efficient tools are needed to pr...
Qingsong Lu, Betsy George, Shashi Shekhar
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2005
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On Trip Planning Queries in Spatial Databases
In this paper we discuss a new type of query in Spatial Databases, called the Trip Planning Query (TPQ). Given a set of points of interest P in space, where each point belongs to ...
Feifei Li, Dihan Cheng, Marios Hadjieleftheriou, G...