Location dependent query processing


Seydim A. Y., Dunham M. H., Kumar V.

Proceedings of the Second ACM International Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access: MobiDE 2001, Santa Barbara, CA, United States Of America, 20 May 2001, pp.47-53 identifier

  • Publication Type: Conference Paper / Full Text
  • Doi Number: 10.1145/376868.376895
  • City: Santa Barbara, CA
  • Country: United States Of America
  • Page Numbers: pp.47-53
  • TED University Affiliated: No

Abstract

The advances in wireless and mobile computing allow a mobile user to perform a wide range of aplications once limited to non-mobile hard wired computing environments. As the geographical position of a mobile user is becoming more trackable, users need to pull data which are related to their location, perhaps seeking information about unfamiliar places or local lifestyle data. In these requests, a location attribute has to be identified in order to provide more efficient access to location dependent data, whose value is determined by the location to which it is related. Local yellow pages, local events, and weather information are some of the examples of these data. In this paper, we give a formalization of location relatedness in queries. We differentiate location dependence and location awareness and provide thorough examples to support our approach.