Many emerging smartphone applications require position information to provide location-
based or context-aware services. In these applications, GPS is often preferred over its …

Many emerging location-aware applications require position information. However, these
applications rarely use celltower-based localization because of its inaccuracy, preferring …

With the increasing popularity of smart phones, location-based services became a hot topic
and a great number of solutions were presented over the last years. The majority of …

Todays versatile mobile devices such as smartphones are increasingly popular platforms for
trajectory-based applications such as vehicle tracking, route navigation and geotagged …

While evolving mobile technologies bring millions of users closer to the vision of information
anywhere-anytime, device battery depletions still hamper the quality of experience to a great …

Mobile device tracking technologies based on various positioning systems have made
location data collection ubiquitous. The frequency at which location samples are recorded …

Location logging is a technique that continuously records user's location using various
location sensing and positioning technologies. Location logs and information derived from …

The objective of this research is to realize a method that detects a user's entrance to
predefined geographic area so that appropriate services are provided without explicit user …

During the last years, location-based services (LBS) became one of the most popular
features of mobile devices like smartphones or tablets. Basically, reactive LBS provide …

Recently, numerous location-based services have been developed for smartphones; among
location-based services, proactive location-based services can serve smartphone users …