Abstract. Modern mobile phones and PDAs are equipped with positioning capabilities (e.g., GPS). Users can access public location-based services (e.g., Google Maps) and ask spatial ...
Gabriel Ghinita, Panos Kalnis, Spiros Skiadopoulos
A “friend finder” is a Location Based Service (LBS) that informs users about the presence of participants in a geographical area. In particular, one of the functionalities of ...
Spatial generalization has been recently proposed as a technique for the anonymization of requests in location based services. This paper presents the results of an extensive expe...
Abstract. Location privacy is of utmost concern for location-based services. It is the property that a person’s location is revealed to other entities, such as a service provider...
Location based services (LBS) are a specific instance of a broader class of Internet services that are predicted to become popular in a near future: context-aware services. The pr...