Abstract. Can a system designed primarily for the purpose of databasetype storage and retrieval be used for information-retrieval tasks? This was one of the questions that led us t...
— Many novel spatio-temporal applications deal with moving objects. In such environments, a database typically maintains the initial position and the moving function for each obj...
Marios Hadjieleftheriou, George Kollios, Vassilis ...
The problem of trajectory similarity in moving object databases is a relatively new topic in the spatial and spatiotemporal database literature. Existing work focuses on the spati...
Elias Frentzos, Kostas Gratsias, Yannis Theodoridi...
Today's record matching infrastructure does not allow a flexible way to account for synonyms such as "Robert" and "Bob" which refer to the same name, and ...
The popularity of mobile social networking services (mSNSs) is propelling more and more businesses, especially those in retailing and marketing, into mobile and location-based for...