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GIS
2010
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Towards location-based social networking services
Social networking applications have become very important web services that provide Internet-based platforms for their users to interact with their friends. With the advances in t...
Chi-Yin Chow, Jie Bao 0003, Mohamed F. Mokbel
SIGMOD
2011
ACM
299views Database» more  SIGMOD 2011»
14 years 5 months ago
Processing theta-joins using MapReduce
Joins are essential for many data analysis tasks, but are not supported directly by the MapReduce paradigm. While there has been progress on equi-joins, implementation of join alg...
Alper Okcan, Mirek Riedewald
GIS
2004
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
A novel improvement to the R*-tree spatial index using gain/loss metrics
The R*-tree is a state-of-the-art spatial index structure. It has already found its way into commercial systems. The most important improvement of the R*-tree over the original R-...
Donghui Zhang, Tian Xia
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
269views Database» more  SIGMOD 2009»
16 years 3 months ago
Efficient approximate entity extraction with edit distance constraints
Named entity recognition aims at extracting named entities from unstructured text. A recent trend of named entity recognition is finding approximate matches in the text with respe...
Wei Wang 0011, Chuan Xiao, Xuemin Lin, Chengqi Zha...
CCS
2007
ACM
15 years 9 months ago
Managing RBAC states with transitive relations
In this paper, we study the maintenance of role-based access control (RBAC) models in database environments using transitive closure relations. In particular, the algorithms that ...
Chaoyi Pang, David P. Hansen, Anthony J. Maeder