A very important class of queries in GIS applications is the class of K-Nearest Neighbor queries. Most of the current studies on the K-Nearest Neighbor queries utilize spatial ind...
Cyrus Shahabi, Mohammad R. Kolahdouzan, Mehdi Shar...
With the prevalence of GPS-embedded mobile devices, enormous amounts of mobility data are being collected in the form of trajectory - a stream of (x,y,t) points. Such trajectories...
We present Ontuition, a system for mapping ontologies. Transforming data to a usable format for Ontuition involves recognizing and resolving data values corresponding to concepts ...
Marco D. Adelfio, Michael D. Lieberman, Hanan Same...
The quality of a local search engine, such as Google and Bing Maps, heavily relies on its geographic datasets. Typically, these datasets are obtained from multiple sources, e.g., ...
Local search is a specialization of the web search that allows users to submit geographically constrained queries. However, one of the challenges for local search engines is to un...