Abstract-- This work presents a novel index structure, MHRtree, for efficiently answering approximate string match queries in large spatial databases. The MHR-tree is based on the ...
Bin Yao, Feifei Li, Marios Hadjieleftheriou, Kun H...
Abstract—Extensive work has been devoted to private information retrieval and privacy preserving data mining. To protect user privacy from search engines, however, most current a...
Shaozhi Ye, Shyhtsun Felix Wu, Raju Pandey, Hao Ch...
Sensor networks will shortly consist of globally deployed sensors providing real-time geo-centric information to users. Particularly, users with mobile devices will issue ad-hoc q...
Mohamed Aly, Anandha Gopalan, Jerry Zhao, Adel M. ...
The ability to continuously monitor the positions of mobile objects is important in many applications. While most past work has been set in Euclidean spaces, the mobile objects rel...
Hua Lu, Zhiyong Huang, Christian S. Jensen, Linhao...
— In this paper, we aim to realize a context and preference-aware database system, CareDB, that provides scalable personalized location-based services to users based on their pre...