Theories of rational belief revision recently proposed by Alchourron, Gardenfors, Makinson, and Nebel illuminate many important issues but impose unnecessarily strong standards fo...
Abstract. Crime pattern analysis has tended to focus on `hotspot’ analysis techniques; the identi® cation of areas with higher densities of criminal activity. This paper documen...
With the popularity of location-based services and the abundant usage of smart phones and GPS enabled devices, the necessity of outsourcing spatial data has grown rapidly over the...
Ling Hu, Wei-Shinn Ku, Spiridon Bakiras, Cyrus Sha...
Mobile intention recognition is the problem of inferring a mobile user's intentions from her behavior in geographic space. Such behavior is constrained in space and time. Cur...
Local search is a specialization of the web search that allows users to submit geographically constrained queries. However, one of the challenges for local search engines is to un...