Mobile smartphone users frequently need to search for nearby points of interest from a location based service, but in a way that preserves the privacy of the users' locations...
Femi G. Olumofin, Piotr K. Tysowski, Ian Goldberg,...
Abstract Traditional nearest-neighbor (NN) search is based on two basic indexing approaches: object-based indexing and solution-based indexing. The former is constructed based on t...
Baihua Zheng, Jianliang Xu, Wang-Chien Lee, Dik Lu...
The wide spread of location-based services results in a strong market for location-detection devices (e.g., GPS-like devices, RFIDs, handheld devices, and cellular phones). Example...
— Consider the following scenario: a spatio-temporal stochastic process generates service requests, localized at points in a bounded region on the plane; these service requests a...
Marco Pavone, Nabhendra Bisnik, Emilio Frazzoli, V...
Abstract. One of the most difficult obstacles Web Services have to overcome in the attempt to exploit the true potential of the World Wide Web is heterogeneity. Caused by the natur...