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ER
2004
Springer
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15 years 2 months ago
Querying Heterogeneous Spatial Databases: Combining an Ontology with Similarity Functions
This paper uses a knowledge-based approach to querying heterogeneous spatial databases based on an ontology and conceptual and attribute similarities. The ontology, which may be in...
Mariella Gutiérrez, M. Andrea Rodríg...
SSD
2005
Springer
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15 years 3 months ago
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...
SSD
2009
Springer
193views Database» more  SSD 2009»
15 years 4 months ago
Query Integrity Assurance of Location-Based Services Accessing Outsourced Spatial Databases
Outsourcing data to third party data providers is becoming a common practice for data owners to avoid the cost of managing and maintaining databases. Meanwhile, due to the populari...
Wei-Shinn Ku, Ling Hu, Cyrus Shahabi, Haixun Wang
ICDE
2010
IEEE
268views Database» more  ICDE 2010»
15 years 9 months ago
Techniques for Efficiently Searching in Spatial, Temporal, Spatio-temporal, and Multimedia Databases
This tutorial provides a comprehensive and comparative overview of general techniques to efficiently support similarity queries in spatial, temporal, spatio-temporal, and multimedi...
Hans-Peter Kriegel, Matthias Renz, Peer Kröge...
SIGMOD
2003
ACM
134views Database» more  SIGMOD 2003»
15 years 9 months ago
Location-based Spatial Queries
In this paper we propose an approach that enables mobile clients to determine the validity of previous queries based on their current locations. In order to make this possible, th...
Jun Zhang, Manli Zhu, Dimitris Papadias, Yufei Tao...