A location-based service (LBS) provides information based on the location information specified in a query. Nearest-neighbor (NN) search is an important class of queries supported ...
Baihua Zheng, Jianliang Xu, Wang-Chien Lee, Dik Lu...
The wide popularity of free-and-easy keyword based searches over World Wide Web has fueled the demand for incorporating keyword-based search over structured databases. However, mo...
Bei Yu, Guoliang Li, Karen R. Sollins, Anthony K. ...
Existing keyword-search systems in relational databases require users to submit a complete query to compute answers. Often users feel "left in the dark" when they have l...
Many popular online services provide "local" or "yellow-pages" search, but none of them allow users to customize the search over user-specified data. Instead, ...
Naren Datha, Tanuja Joshi, Joseph Joy, Vibhuti S. ...
It is now common for video; real-time and collected, mobile and static, to be georeferenced and stored in large archives for users of expert systems to access and interact with. I...