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...
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 ...
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...
This tutorial provides a comprehensive and comparative overview of general techniques to efficiently support similarity queries in spatial, temporal, spatio-temporal, and multimedi...
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...