Conventional database systems are designed for managing textual and numerical data, and
retrieving such data is often based on simple comparisons of text/numerical values …

Crowdsourcing is a computing paradigm where humans are actively involved in a
computing task, especially for tasks that are intrinsically easier for humans than for …

Urbanization's rapid progress has modernized many people's lives but also engendered big
issues, such as traffic congestion, energy consumption, and pollution. Urban computing …

Data-driven intelligent transportation systems utilize data resources generated within
intelligent systems to improve the performance of transportation systems and provide …

The domain of spatiotemporal applications is a treasure trove of new types of data and
queries. However, work in this area is guided by related research from the spatial and …

Moving Objects Databases is the first uniform treatment of moving objects databases, the
technology that supports GPS and RFID. It focuses on the modeling and design of data from …

Space support in databases poses new challenges in every part of a database management
system & the capability of spatial support in the physical layer is considered very important …

The rise of GPS-equipped mobile devices has led to the emergence of big trajectory data. In
this paper, we study a new path finding query which finds the most frequent path (MFP) …

With the rapid increase in the use of inexpensive, location-aware sensors in a variety of new
applications, large amounts of time-sequenced location data will soon be accumulated …

Although there are many advanced and specialized texts and handbooks on algorithms,
until now there was no book that focused exclusively on the wide variety of data structures …