Semantic Caching in Location-Dependent Query Processing

• Main Authors: ZHENG, Baihua, LEE, Dik Lun
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2001
• Subjects: Mobile radiocommunication; Mobility; Database query; Object location; Voronoï diagram; Nearest neighbour; Cache memory; Semantics; Spatial database; Databases and Information Systems; Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1065; http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-47724-1_6
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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 tec...