The R*-tree, as a state-of-the-art spatial index, has already found its way into commercial systems like Oracle. In this paper, we aim at improving query performance of the R*tree...
Many applications require finding objects closest to a specified location that contains a set of keywords. For example, online yellow pages allow users to specify an address and a ...
A progressive spatial query retrieves spatial data based on previous queries (e.g., to fetch data in a more restricted area with higher resolution). A direct query, on the other si...
Spatial language video retrieval is an important real-world problem that forms a test bed for evaluating semantic structures for natural language descriptions of motion on natural...
Continuous monitoring of spatial queries has gained significant research attention in the past few years. Although numerous algorithms have been proposed to solve specific queries...
Mahady Hasan, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Xuemin Lin, W...