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Spatio-Temporal Histograms
This paper presents a framework for building and continuously maintaining spatio-temporal histograms (ST-Histograms, for short). ST-Histograms are used for selectivity estimation o...
Hicham G. Elmongui, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Walid G. Ar...

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Continuous Query Processing of Spatio-temporal Data Streams in PLACE
The tremendous increase in the use of cellular phones, GPS-like devices, and RFIDs results in highly dynamic environments where objects as well as queries are continuously moving. ...
Mohamed F. Mokbel, Xiaopeng Xiong, Moustafa A. Ham...

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SEA-CNN: Scalable Processing of Continuous K-Nearest Neighbor Queries in Spatio-temporal Databases
Location-aware environments are characterized by a large number of objects and a large number of continuous queries. Both the objects and continuous queries may change their locati...
Xiaopeng Xiong, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Walid G. Aref

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LUGrid: Update-tolerant Grid-based Indexing for Moving Objects
Indexing moving objects is a fundamental issue in spatiotemporal databases. In this paper, we propose an adaptive Lazy-Update Grid-based index (LUGrid, for short) that minimizes th...
Xiaopeng Xiong, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Walid G. Aref
VLDB
2006
ACM
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The New Casper: Query Processing for Location Services without Compromising Privacy
This paper tackles a major privacy concern in current location-based services where users have to continuously report their locations to the database server in order to obtain the ...
Mohamed F. Mokbel, Chi-Yin Chow, Walid G. Aref

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15 years 11 months ago
Enabling Private Continuous Queries For Revealed User Locations
Existing location-based services provide specialized services to their customers based on the knowledge of their exact locations. With untrustworthy servers, location-based service...
Chi-Yin Chow, Mohamed F. Mokbel

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15 years 11 months ago
Continuous Evaluation of Monochromatic and Bichromatic Reverse Nearest Neighbors
This paper presents a novel algorithm for Incremental and General Evaluation of continuous Reverse Nearest neighbor queries (IGERN, for short). The IGERN algorithm is general as it...
James M. Kang, Mohamed F. Mokbel, Shashi Shekhar, ...

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15 years 11 months ago
SOLE: Scalable On-Line Execution of Continuous Queries on Spatio-temporal Data Streams
This paper presents the Scalable On-Line Execution algorithm (SOLE, for short) for continuous and on-line evaluation of concurrent continuous spatio- temporal queries over data str...
Mohamed F. Mokbel, Walid G. Aref

Tutorial
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15 years 11 months ago
Location-aware Query Processing and Optimization
The wide spread use of cellular phones, handheld devices, and GPS-like technology enables location-aware environments where virtually all objects are aware of their locations. Loca...