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CHI
2003
ACM
16 years 5 months ago
Cellular phone manuals: users' benefit from spatial maps
Manuals of technical devices are often not very helpful to the user. This study investigates the influence of spatial instructions versus linear step-by-step manuals on inexperien...
Susanne Bay
SEMWEB
2009
Springer
15 years 11 months ago
LinkedGeoData: Adding a Spatial Dimension to the Web of Data
Abstract. In order to employ the Web as a medium for data and information integration, comprehensive datasets and vocabularies are required as they enable the disambiguation and al...
Sören Auer, Jens Lehmann, Sebastian Hellmann
SIGMOD
1998
ACM
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15 years 9 months ago
Incremental Distance Join Algorithms for Spatial Databases
Two new spatial join operations, distance join and distance semijoin, are introduced where the join output is ordered by the distance betweenthe spatialattribute values ofthe join...
Gísli R. Hjaltason, Hanan Samet
GIS
1995
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
A Window Retrieval Algorithm for Spatial Databases Using Quadtrees
An algorithm is presented to answer window queries in a quadtree-based spatial database environment by retrieving the covering blocks in the underlying spatial database. It works ...
Walid G. Aref, Hanan Samet
ENTCS
2007
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15 years 5 months ago
Extensionality of Spatial Observations in Distributed Systems
We discuss the tensions between intensionality and extensionality of spatial observations in distributed systems, showing that there are natural models where extensional observati...
Luís Caires, Hugo Torres Vieira