The web is increasingly being used by mobile users. In addition, it is increasingly becoming
possible to accurately geo-position mobile users and web content. This development gives …

Recent advances in localization techniques have fundamentally enhanced social
networking services, allowing users to share their locations and location-related contents …

The conventional Internet is acquiring a geo-spatial dimension. Web documents are being
geo-tagged, and geo-referenced objects such as points of interest are being associated with …

Geo-textual indices play an important role in spatial keyword querying. The existing geo-
textual indices have not been compared systematically under the same experimental …

With the proliferation of geo-positioning and geo-tagging, spatial web objects that possess
both a geographical location and a textual description are gaining in prevalence, and spatial …

With advances in geo-positioning technologies and geo-location services, there are a
rapidly growing amount of spatio-textual objects collected in many applications such as …

Spatial keyword search has been playing an indispensable role in personalized route
recommendation and geo-textual information retrieval. In this light, we conduct a survey on …

The advances in location positioning and wireless communication technologies have led to
a myriad of spatial trajectories representing the mobility of a variety of moving objects. While …

The location-aware keyword query returns ranked objects that are near a query location and
that have textual descriptions that match query keywords. This query occurs inherently in …

Geographic objects associated with descriptive texts are becoming prevalent. This gives
prominence to spatial keyword queries that take into account both the locations and textual …