SSD
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2009
Springer
Outsourcing data to third party data providers is becoming a common practice for data owners to avoid the cost of managing and maintaining databases. Meanwhile, due to the populari...
SSD
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2009
Springer
In the light of rapidly growing repositories capturing the movement trajectories of people in spacetime, the need for trajectory compression becomes obvious. This paper argues for ...
SSD
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2009
Springer
A location-based service called friend-locator notifies a user if the user is geographically close to any of the user’s friends. Services of this kind are getting increasingly p...
SSD
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2009
Springer
Abstract. We consider a setting with numerous location-aware moving objects that communicate with a central server. Assuming a set of focal points of interest, we aim at continuous...
SSD
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2009
Springer
The standard database mechanisms for concurrency control, which include transactions and locking protocols, do not provide the support needed for updating complex geographic data i...
SSD
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2009
Springer
With the exponential growth of moving objects data to the Gigabyte range, it has become critical to develop effective techniques for indexing, updating, and querying these massive ...
FQAS
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2009
Springer
The bag of words representation (BoW), which is widely used in information retrieval (IR), represents documents and queries as word lists that do not express anything about context...
FQAS
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2009
Springer
Abstract. The task of similarity search is widely used in various areas of computing, including multimedia databases, data mining, bioinformatics, social networks, etc. For a long ...
FQAS
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2009
Springer
We consider the problem of finding and ranking paths in semistructured data without necessarily knowing its full structure. The query language we adopt comprises conjunctions of r...
FQAS
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
2009
Springer
In this paper, we investigate the exploitation of user profiles defined in social tagging services to personalize Web search. One of the key challenges of a personalization framewo...