The class of k Nearest Neighbor (kNN) queries in spatial networks has been widely studied in the literature. All existing approaches for kNN search in spatial networks assume that ...
Ugur Demiryurek, Farnoush Banaei Kashani, Cyrus Sh...
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. ...
Declustering techniques reduce query response times through parallel I/O by distributing data among multiple devices. Most of the research on declustering is targeted at spatial r...
We describe a new multi-phase, color-based image retrieval system, FOCUS Fast Object Color-based qUery System, with an online user interface which is capable of identifying mult...
Madirakshi Das, Edward M. Riseman, Bruce A. Draper
In a mobile service scenario, users query a server for nearby points of interest but they may not want to disclose their locations to the service. Intuitively, location privacy may...
Man Lung Yiu, Christian S. Jensen, Xuegang Huang, ...