Existing location-based services provide specialized services to their customers based on the knowledge of their exact locations. With untrustworthy servers, location-based service...
The K-Closest-Pairs Query (K-CPQ), a type of distance join in spatial databases, discovers the K pairs of objects formed from two different datasets with the K smallest distances....
Antonio Corral, Yannis Manolopoulos, Yannis Theodo...
In this paper we present a mechanism for translating constraint queries, i.e., Boolean expressions of constraints, across heterogeneous information sources. Integrating such syste...
Despite various interoperability recommendations, heterogeneity of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is still an issue. This led to an increasing need for a data integration sy...
: Information retrieval tries to identify relevant documents for an information need. The problems that an IR system should deal with include document indexing (which tries to extr...