This paper tackles a major privacy threat in current location-based services where users have to report their exact locations to the database server in order to obtain their desire...
Local aspects of Web search -- associating Web content and queries with geography -- is a topic of growing interest. However, the underlying question of how spatial variation is m...
Lars Backstrom, Jon M. Kleinberg, Ravi Kumar, Jasm...
Emerging applications using miniature electronic devices (e.g., tracking mobile objects using sensors) generate very large amounts of highly dynamic data that poses very high overh...
The performance of data-parallel algorithms for spatial operations using data-parallel variants of the bucket PMR quadtree, R-tree, and R+-tree spatial data structures is compared...
Social networking and content sharing service providers, e.g., Facebook and Google Maps, enable their users to upload and share a variety of user-generated content, including locat...
Man Lung Yiu, Gabriel Ghinita, Christian S. Jensen...