Mobile commerce and location based services (LBS) are some of the fastest growing IT industries in the last five years. Location update of mobile clients is a fundamental capabil...
The use of location based services has increased significantly over the last few years. However, location information is only sparsely used as a security mechanism. One of the reas...
Georg T. Becker, Sherman C. Lo, David S. De Lorenz...
The concept of location has become very popular in many applications on the Web, in particular for those which aim at connecting the real world with resources on the Web. However,...
—The anonymization of location based queries through the generalization of spatio-temporal information has been proposed as a privacy preserving technique. We show that the prese...
Daniele Riboni, Linda Pareschi, Claudio Bettini, S...
In this paper, we explore the problem of processing a novel type of location based queries, named the location based top-k query, which involves both of spatial and non-spatial sp...
HaRim Jung, Byung Ku Cho, Yon Dohn Chung, Ling Liu