With the popularity of location-based services and the abundant usage of smart phones and GPS enabled devices, the necessity of outsourcing spatial data has grown rapidly over the...
Ling Hu, Wei-Shinn Ku, Spiridon Bakiras, Cyrus Sha...
Advances in wireless networks and positioning technologies (e.g., GPS) have enabled new data management applications that monitor moving objects. In such new applications, realtime...
Abstract—This paper proposes LARS, a location-aware recommender system that uses location-based ratings to produce recommendations. Traditional recommender systems do not conside...
Justin J. Levandoski, Mohamed Sarwat, Ahmed Eldawy...
Abstract-- In sensor environments and moving robot applications, the position of an object is often known imprecisely because of measurement error and/or movement of the object. In...
In this paper we observe that k-anonymizing a data set is strikingly similar to building a spatial index over the data set, so similar in fact that classical spatial indexing tech...