With the proliferation of mobile devices (e.g., PDAs, cell phones, etc.), location-based services have become more and more popular in recent years. However, users have to reveal ...
Wei-Shinn Ku, Roger Zimmermann, Wen-Chih Peng, Sus...
Sensor networks, that consist of potentially several thousands of nodes each with sensing (heat, sound, light, magnetism, etc.) and wireless communication capabilities, provide gr...
This paper presents a query optimizer module based on cost estimation that chooses the best filtering step algorithm to perform a specific spatial join operation. A set of express...
Let a tuple of n objects obeying a query graph (QG) be called the n-tuple. The “Ddistance-value” of this n-tuple is the value of a linear function of distances of the n objects...
Antonio Corral, Yannis Manolopoulos, Yannis Theodo...
With the proliferation of geo-positioning and geo-tagging, spatial web objects that possess both a geographical location and a textual description are gaining in prevalence, and s...
Xin Cao, Gao Cong, Christian S. Jensen, Beng Chin ...