— In contrast to the traditional wireless sensor network (WSN) applications that perform only data collection and aggregation, new generation of information processing applicatio...
A k-NN query finds the k nearest-neighbors of a given point from a point database. When it is sufficient to measure object distance using the Euclidian distance, the key to effici...
Ke Deng, Xiaofang Zhou, Heng Tao Shen, Kai Xu 0003...
—The increasing availability of location-aware mobile devices has given rise to a flurry of location-based services (LBS). Due to the nature of spatial queries, an LBS needs the...
Moving object databases store and process data for objects that change location frequently. Materialized views maintained over time must be updated to reflect changes due to the m...
Efficient processing of distance-based queries (DBQs) is of great importance in spatial databases due to the wide area of applications that may address such queries. The most repr...