With the proliferation of cloud computing, data owners can outsource the spatial data from
the Internet of Things devices to a cloud server to enjoy the pay-as-you-go storage …

GPS-enabled Internet of Things devices, which can obtain the location and temporal
information of installed objects to promote location-based service, are completely changing …

In spatial crowdsourcing, location-based task recommendation schemes are widely used to
match appropriate workers in desired geographic areas with relevant tasks from data …

Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) play an increasingly important role in a number of
applications, particularly those associated with location-based services (eg, spatial keyword …

As location-based applications flourishing, we will witness soon the transferring of a
prodigious amount of data from the local to a public cloud. The rising demand for outsourced …

With the rapid growth of data size, a large number of data providers outsource their private
data to cloud servers to reduce the high storage and computation burdens, but it also leads …

Driven by the cloud-first initiative taken by various governments and companies, it has
become a common practice to outsource spatial data to cloud servers for a wide range of …

Monitoring location updates from mobile users has important applications in many areas,
ranging from public health (eg, COVID-19 contact tracing) and national security to social …

The location-based alert system plays a primary factor on determining who is at risk during
an emergency, such as a war zone in Ukraine. While users are willing to reveal their …

Driven by the cloud-first initiative taken by various governments and companies, it has
become a common practice to outsource spatial data to cloud servers for a wide range of …