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JOCN
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
The Neural Basis for Spatial Relations
Studies in semantics traditionally focus on knowledge of objects. By contrast, less is known about how objects relate to each other. In an fMRI study, we tested the hypothesis tha...
Prin X. Amorapanth, Page Widick, Anjan Chatterjee
ICDE
2009
IEEE
180views Database» more  ICDE 2009»
14 years 10 months ago
Outsourcing Search Services on Private Spatial Data
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...
ICDE
2008
IEEE
157views Database» more  ICDE 2008»
14 years 9 months ago
Spatial Outsourcing for Location-based Services
- The embedding of positioning capabilities in mobile devices and the emergence of location-based applications have created novel opportunities for utilizing several types of multi...
Yin Yang, Stavros Papadopoulos, Dimitris Papadias,...
ICDE
2008
IEEE
169views Database» more  ICDE 2008»
14 years 9 months ago
Common Influence Join: A Natural Join Operation for Spatial Pointsets
We identify and formalize a novel join operator for two spatial pointsets P and Q. The common influence join (CIJ) returns the pairs of points (p, q), p P, q Q, such that there e...
Man Lung Yiu, Nikos Mamoulis, Panagiotis Karras
EDBT
2006
ACM
145views Database» more  EDBT 2006»
14 years 8 months ago
Indexing Spatially Sensitive Distance Measures Using Multi-resolution Lower Bounds
Abstract. Comparison of images requires a distance metric that is sensitive to the spatial location of objects and features. Such sensitive distance measures can, however, be compu...
Vebjorn Ljosa, Arnab Bhattacharya, Ambuj K. Singh