Location-dependent query processing

✍ Scribed by Ilarri, Sergio; Mena, Eduardo; Illarramendi, Arantza

• Book ID: 121285838
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 886 KB
• Volume: 42
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0360-0300
• DOI: 10.1145/1670679.1670682

✦ Synopsis

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 context-aware information. Specifically, location-based services and location-dependent queries have attracted a lot of interest.

In this article, the existing literature in the field of location-dependent query processing is reviewed. The technological context (mobile computing) and support middleware (such as moving object databases and data stream technology) are described, location-based services and location-dependent queries are defined and classified, and different query processing approaches are reviewed and compared.