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GIS
2004
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Energy efficient exact kNN search in wireless broadcast environments
The advances in wireless communication and decreasing costs of mobile devices have enabled users to access desired information at any time. Coupled with positioning technologies l...
Bugra Gedik, Aameek Singh, Ling Liu
WADS
2005
Springer
149views Algorithms» more  WADS 2005»
14 years 28 days ago
Balanced Aspect Ratio Trees Revisited
Spatial databases support a variety of geometric queries on point data such as range searches, nearest neighbor searches, etc. Balanced Aspect Ratio (BAR) trees are hierarchical sp...
Amitabh Chaudhary, Michael T. Goodrich
ICDAR
2011
IEEE
12 years 7 months ago
Symbol Spotting in Line Drawings through Graph Paths Hashing
—In this paper we propose a symbol spotting technique through hashing the shape descriptors of graph paths (Hamiltonian paths). Complex graphical structures in line drawings can ...
Anjan Dutta, Josep Lladós, Umapada Pal
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
210views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
14 years 7 months ago
Private queries in location based services: anonymizers are not necessary
Mobile devices equipped with positioning capabilities (e.g., GPS) can ask location-dependent queries to Location Based Services (LBS). To protect privacy, the user location must n...
Gabriel Ghinita, Panos Kalnis, Ali Khoshgozaran, C...
VLDB
2008
ACM
110views Database» more  VLDB 2008»
14 years 7 months ago
Enhancing histograms by tree-like bucket indices
Histograms are used to summarize the contents of relations into a number of buckets for the estimation of query result sizes. Several techniques (e.g., MaxDiff and V-Optimal) have ...
Francesco Buccafurri, Gianluca Lax, Domenico SaccĂ...