Spatial networks like transportation, power, and pipeline networks are a ubiquitous spatial concept in everyday life and play an important role for navigational and routing purpos...
It is cost-effective for data owners to publicize their spatial databases via database outsourcing; however, data privacy and query integrity are major challenges. In this demonst...
Chih-Jye Wang, Wei-Shinn Ku, Ling Hu, Cyrus Shahab...
Despite the existence of obstacles in many database applications, traditional spatial query processing utilizes the Euclidean distance metric assuming that points in space are dire...
Jun Zhang, Dimitris Papadias, Kyriakos Mouratidis,...
In an object-relational database management system, a query optimizer requires users to provide cost models of userdefined functions. The traditional approach is analytical, that...
With the proliferation of mobile devices (e.g., PDAs, cell phones, etc.), location-based services have become more and more popular in recent years. However, users have to reveal ...
Wei-Shinn Ku, Roger Zimmermann, Wen-Chih Peng, Sus...