Rapid pervasion of the web into users' daily lives has put much importance on capturing location-specific information on the web, due to the fact that most human activities o...
Chuang Wang, Xing Xie, Lee Wang, Yansheng Lu, Wei-...
Abstract—We study routing overhead due to location information collection and retrieval in mobile ad-hoc networks employing geographic routing with no hierarchy. We first provid...
Location-based information contained in publicly available GIS databases is invaluable for many applications such as disaster response, national infrastructure protection, crime a...
Existing approaches for the processing of location-dependent queries implicitly assume location data expressed at maximum precision (e.g., GPS). However, there exist applications w...
Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) community has generally accepted the thesis that both thematic and geographic aspect of documents may be useful for GIR. This paper describe...