The skyline query returns the most interesting tuples according to a set of explicitly defined preferences among attribute values. This work relaxes this requirement, and allows us...
Research on spatial network databases has so far considered that there is a single cost value associated with each road segment of the network. In most real-world situations, howev...
Abstract-- This work presents a novel index structure, MHRtree, for efficiently answering approximate string match queries in large spatial databases. The MHR-tree is based on the ...
Bin Yao, Feifei Li, Marios Hadjieleftheriou, Kun H...
Sender anonymity in location-based services (LBS) attempts to hide the identity of a mobile device user who sends requests to the LBS provider for services in her proximity (e.g. &...
Alin Deutsch, Richard Hull, Avinash Vyas, Kevin Ke...
1 We consider the problem of similarity search in applications where the cost of computing the similarity between two records is very expensive, and the similarity measure is not a...
Chris Jermaine, Fei Xu, Mingxi Wu, Ravi Jampani, T...