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A method is presented in this paper for answering location-dependent queries in a mobile computing environment. We investigate a common scenario where data objects (e.g., restaurants and gas stations) are stationary while clients that issue queries about the data objects are mobile. Our proposed technique constructs a Voronoi Diagram (VD) on the data objects to serve as an index for them. A VD defines, for each data object d, the region within which d is the nearest point to any mobile client within that region. As such, the VD can be used to answer nearest-neighbor queries directly. Furthermore, the area within which the answer is valid can be computed. Based on the VD, we develop a semantic caching scheme that records a cached item as well as its valid range. A simulation is conducted to study the performance of the proposed semantic cache in comparison with the traditional cache and the …