Location-aware mobile users need to access, query, and visualize, geographic information in a wide variety of applications including tourism, navigation, environmental management,...
Suresh K. Lodha, Nikolai M. Faaland, Grant Wong, A...
Advances in geographical information systems (GIS) and supporting data collection technology has resulted in the rapid collection of a huge amount of spatial data. However, known ...
Knowledge Sifter is a scaleable agent-based system that supports access to heterogeneous information sources such as the Web, open-source repositories, XML-databases and the emergi...
Larry Kerschberg, Mizan Chowdhury, Alberto Damiano...
Trip planning search (TPS) represents an important class of queries in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). In many real-world applications, TPS requests are issued with a number...
Haiquan Chen, Wei-Shinn Ku, Min-Te Sun, Roger Zimm...
In a transaction-time temporal object database management system (TODBMS), updating an object creates a new version of the object, but the old version is still accessible. A TODBM...