In recent years, while search engines have become more and more powerful, several specialized search engines have been developed for different domains (e.g. library services, serv...
Social networking and content sharing service providers, e.g., Facebook and Google Maps, enable their users to upload and share a variety of user-generated content, including locat...
Man Lung Yiu, Gabriel Ghinita, Christian S. Jensen...
Many web pages and resources are primarily relevant to certain geographic locations. For example, in many queries web pages on restaurants, hotels, or movie theaters are only rele...
A critical issue in moving object databases is to develop appropriate indexing structures for continuously moving object locations so that queries can still be performed efficien...
We study the problem of generating synthetic databases having declaratively specified characteristics. This problem is motivated by database system and application testing, data ...