As smart devices and mobile positioning technologies improve, location-based services
(LBS) have grown in popularity. The LBS environment provides considerable convenience …

Nowadays, human trajectories are widely collected and utilized for scientific research and
business purpose. However, publishing trajectory data without proper handling might cause …

Location-based services (LBS) in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) must protect users'
privacy and address the threat of the exposure of sensitive locations during LBS requests …

As smart devices and cloud services are rapidly expanding, a large amount of location
information can easily be gathered. However, there is a conflict between collecting location …

According to the growth of mobile devices equipped with a GPS receiver, a variety of
location-based services (LBSs) have been launched. Since location information may reveal …

Although users can obtain various services by sharing their location information online with
location-based service providers, it reveals sensitive information about users. However …

Crowdsensing-based mobile Internet, while facilitating users' daily life, also raises privacy
concerns because of sharing user location trajectories. Combining with open-source …

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the concept of everyday objects that make us live in the era of
the IoT. The spatial characteristics of things around us can be considered the reins of the IoT …

This position paper presents our vision for the semantic management of moving objects. We
argue that exploiting semantic techniques in mobility data management can bring valuable …

Location check-ins contain both geographical and semantic information about the visited
venues. Semantic information is usually represented by means of tags (eg,“restaurant”) …