Spatial keyword search has been playing an indispensable role in personalized route
recommendation and geo-textual information retrieval. In this light, we conduct a survey on …

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 …

Over the past decade, we have moved from a predominantly desktop based web to a
predominantly mobile web, where users most often access the web from mobile devices …

Textual information is often added to spatial objects, and thus a spatial search query
includes both location-based and textual-based information. For example, a user may want …

Data integration involves combining data from multiple sources and providing users with a
unified query interface. Data integrity has been a key problem in online data integration …

The collective spatial keyword query (CoSKQ), which takes a location and a set of keywords
as arguments, finds a group of objects that collectively satisfy the query and achieve the …

Data outsourcing is a promising technical paradigm to facilitate cost-effective real-time data
storage, processing, and dissemination. In data outsourcing, a data owner proactively …

The popularity of mobile terminals has generated massive moving objects with spatio-textual
characteristics. A top-k spatial keyword query over moving objects (Top-k SKM query) …

Mobile cloud computing has received a particular attention in recent years thanks to the
expansion and easy accessibility of smartphones with enhanced capabilities, pushing for …

With the explosive growth of online images and the popularity of search engines, a great
demand has arisen for small and medium-sized enterprises to build and outsource large …