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...
It is cost-effective for data owners to publicize their spatial databases via database outsourcing; however, data privacy and query integrity are major challenges. In this demonst...
Chih-Jye Wang, Wei-Shinn Ku, Ling Hu, Cyrus Shahab...
In this paper, we explore the problem of processing a novel type of location based queries, named the location based top-k query, which involves both of spatial and non-spatial sp...
HaRim Jung, Byung Ku Cho, Yon Dohn Chung, Ling Liu
Abstract. Modern mobile phones and PDAs are equipped with positioning capabilities (e.g., GPS). Users can access public location-based services (e.g., Google Maps) and ask spatial ...
Gabriel Ghinita, Panos Kalnis, Spiros Skiadopoulos
Spatial generalization has been recently proposed as a technique for the anonymization of requests in location based services. This paper presents the results of an extensive expe...