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GIS
2006
ACM
15 years 18 days ago
Exploiting a page-level upper bound for multi-type nearest neighbor queries
Given a query point and a collection of spatial features, a multi-type nearest neighbor (MTNN) query finds the shortest tour for the query point such that only one instance of eac...
Xiaobin Ma, Shashi Shekhar, Hui Xiong, Pusheng Zha...
GIS
2006
ACM
15 years 18 days ago
Modeling and querying uncertain spatial information for situational awareness applications
Situational awareness (SA) applications monitor the real world and the entities therein to support tasks such as rapid decision-making, reasoning, and analysis. Raw input about un...
Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Yiming Ma, Sharad Mehrotra,...
GIS
2006
ACM
15 years 18 days ago
Index for fast retrieval of uncertain spatial point data
Location information gathered from a variety of sources in the form of sensor data, video streams, human observations, and so on, is often imprecise and uncertain and needs to be ...
Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Yiming Ma, Sharad Mehrotra,...
GIS
2006
ACM
15 years 18 days ago
Efficient GML-native processors for web-based GIS: techniques and tools
Geography Markup Language (GML) is an XML-based language for the markup, storage, and exchange of geospatial data. It provides a rich geospatial vocabulary and allows flexible doc...
Chia-Hsin Huang, Tyng-Ruey Chuang, Dong-Po Deng, H...
GIS
2006
ACM
15 years 18 days ago
Generalization of land cover maps by mixed integer programming
We present a novel method for the automatic generalization of land cover maps. A land cover map is composed of areas that collectively form a tessellation of the plane and each ar...
Jan-Henrik Haunert, Alexander Wolff
GIS
2006
ACM
15 years 18 days ago
Optimization of multiple continuous queries over streaming satellite data
Remotely sensed data, in particular satellite imagery, play many important roles in environmental applications and models. In particular applications that study (rapid) changes in...
Quinn Hart, Michael Gertz
GIS
2006
ACM
15 years 18 days ago
Computing longest duration flocks in trajectory data
Moving point object data can be analyzed through the discovery of patterns. We consider the computational efficiency of computing two of the most basic spatio-temporal patterns in...
Joachim Gudmundsson, Marc J. van Kreveld
GIS
2006
ACM
15 years 18 days ago
ST-ACTS: a spatio-temporal activity simulator
Creating complex spatio?temporal simulation models is a hot issue in the area of spatio?temporal databases [7]. While existing Moving Object Simulators (MOSs) address different ph...
Gyözö Gidófalvi, Torben Bach Pede...
GIS
2006
ACM
15 years 18 days ago
On-line maintenance of simplified weighted graphs for efficient distance queries
We give two efficient on-line algorithms to simplify weighted graphs by eliminating degree-two vertices. Our algorithms are on-line -- they react to updates on the data, keeping t...
Floris Geerts, Peter Z. Revesz, Jan Van den Bussch...
GIS
2006
ACM
15 years 18 days ago
Query optimizer for spatial join operations
This paper presents a query optimizer module based on cost estimation that chooses the best filtering step algorithm to perform a specific spatial join operation. A set of express...
Cirano Iochpe, João Luiz Dihl Comba, Miguel...