This paper introduces a multicast based architecture for supporting large scale Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVEs). The paper begins by defining CVEs, discussing the motivat...
Expressing spatial information with iconic gestures is abundant in human communication and requires to transform a referent representation into resembling gestural form. This task ...
—Range query processing is an important technology in spatial databases. Current studies mainly focus on range queries in outdoor space based on the Euclidean or network distance...
?Past R-tree studies have focused on the number of nodes visited as a metric of query performance. Since database systems usually include a buffering mechanism, we propose that the...
Online social networks often involve very large numbers of users who share very large volumes of content. This content is increasingly being tagged with geo-spatial and temporal c...
Dario Freni, Carmen Ruiz Vicente, Sergio Mascetti,...