In the past decade, positioning system-enabled devices such as smartphones have become
most prevalent. This functionality brings the increasing popularity of location-based services …

With the broad adoption of mobile devices, notably smartphones, keyword-based search for
content has seen increasing use by mobile users, who are often interested in content related …

It is nowadays quite common for road networks to have textual contents on the vertices,
which describe auxiliary information (eg, business, traffic, etc.) associated with the vertex. In …

Trajectory similarity is a fundamental operation in spatial-temporal data mining with wide-
ranging applications. However, trajectories inherently exhibit diversity due to varied …

In this paper, we propose a new location-aware pub/sub system, Elaps, that continuously
monitors moving users subscribing to dynamic event streams from social media and E …

The fast development of GPS equipped devices has aroused widespread use of spatial
keyword querying in location based services nowadays. Existing spatial keyword query …

Abstract The growth of Location-Based Services (LBSs) has been made possible by the
widespread use of GPS-enabled devices. Some important LBSs require the ability to quickly …

As a major type of continuous spatial queries, the moving spatial keyword queries have
been studied extensively. Most existing studies focus on retrieving single objects, each of …

We investigate the problem of efficiently supporting location-aware Publish/Subscribe
(Pub/Sub for short), which is essential in many applications such as location-based …

With advances in geo-positioning technologies and mobile internet, location-based services
have attracted much attention, and spatial keyword queries are catching on fast. However …