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DEXA
2010
Springer
230views Database» more  DEXA 2010»
13 years 5 months ago
Hybrid Indexing and Seamless Ranking of Spatial and Textual Features of Web Documents
Abstract. There is a significant commercial and research interest in locationbased web search engines. Given a number of search keywords and one or more locations that a user is in...
Ali Khodaei, Cyrus Shahabi, Chen Li

Publication
715views
15 years 8 months ago
A Peer-to-Peer Spatial Cloaking Algorithm for Anonymous Location-based Services
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...
Chi-Yin Chow, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Xuan Liu
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Spatial variation in search engine queries
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...
DEXA
2003
Springer
149views Database» more  DEXA 2003»
14 years 1 months ago
Capturing Uncertainty in Spatial Queries over Imprecise Data
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...
Xingbo Yu, Sharad Mehrotra
VLDB
1994
ACM
137views Database» more  VLDB 1994»
14 years 10 days ago
Performance of Data-Parallel Spatial Operations
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...
Erik G. Hoel, Hanan Samet