Significant amounts of information available today contain references to places on earth.
Traditionally such information has been held as structured data and was the concern of …

The Definitive Volume on Cutting-Edge Exploratory Analysis of Massive Spatial and
Spatiotemporal DatabasesSince the publication of the first edition of Geographic Data …

The area of similarity searching is a very hot topic for both research and c-mercial
applications. Current data processing applications use data with c-siderably less structure …

The continuous development of wireless networks and mobile devices has motivated an
intense research in mobile data services. Some of these services provide the user with …

The skyline of ad-dimensional dataset contains the points that are not dominated by any
other point on all dimensions. Skyline computation has recently received considerable …

The skyline of a set of d-dimensional points contains the points that are not dominated by
any other point on all dimensions. Skyline computation has recently received considerable …

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 …

Publisher Summary Despite the importance of spatial networks in real-life applications, most
of the spatial database literature focuses on Euclidean spaces. This chapter proposes an …

Many applications require finding objects closest to a specified location that contains a set of
keywords. For example, online yellow pages allow users to specify an address and a set of …

This paper proposes LARS, a location-aware recommender system that uses location-based
ratings to produce recommendations. Traditional recommender systems do not consider …