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...
A central role of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is to allow the identification and visualisation of relevant spatial features from typically large volumes of data. This requ...
Nowadays the scientific community is trying to design new techniques in the search for solving security problems in mobile agent technology. There are now some industry initiatives...
Vernacular place names are names that are commonly in use to refer to geographical places. For purposes of effective information retrieval, the spatial extent associated with these...
Florian A. Twaroch, Christopher B. Jones, Alia I. ...
An enormous amount of information is currently available through specialized services of digital libraries (DLs). However the specification and development of DLs are very complex...
David Patricio Viscarra del Pozo, Lena Veiga e Sil...