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Constrained Shortest Path Computation, Manolis Terrovitis, Spiridon Bakiras, Dimitris Papadias, Kyriakos Mouratidis Dec 2010

Constrained Shortest Path Computation, Manolis Terrovitis, Spiridon Bakiras, Dimitris Papadias, Kyriakos Mouratidis

Kyriakos MOURATIDIS

This paper proposes and solves a-autonomy and k-stops shortest path problems in large spatial databases. Given a source s and a destination d, an aautonomy query retrieves a sequence of data points connecting s and d, such that the distance between any two consecutive points in the path is not greater than a. A k-stops query retrieves a sequence that contains exactly k intermediate data points. In both cases our aim is to compute the shortest path subject to these constraints. Assuming that the dataset is indexed by a data-partitioning method, the proposed techniques initially compute a sub-optimal path by …


Optimal Matching Between Spatial Datasets Under Capacity Constraints, Hou U Leong, Kyriakos Mouratidis, Man Lung Yiu, Nikos Mamoulis Dec 2010

Optimal Matching Between Spatial Datasets Under Capacity Constraints, Hou U Leong, Kyriakos Mouratidis, Man Lung Yiu, Nikos Mamoulis

Kyriakos MOURATIDIS

Consider a set of customers (e.g., WiFi receivers) and a set of service providers (e.g., wireless access points), where each provider has a capacity and the quality of service offered to its customers is anti-proportional to their distance. The capacity constrained assignment (CCA) is a matching between the two sets such that (i) each customer is assigned to at most one provider, (ii) every provider serves no more customers than its capacity, (iii) the maximum possible number of customers are served, and (iv) the sum of Euclidean distances within the assigned provider-customer pairs is minimized. Although max-flow algorithms are applicable …


Capacity Constrained Assignment In Spatial Databases, Hou U Leong, Man Lung Yiu, Kyriakos Mouratidis, Nikos Mamoulis Dec 2010

Capacity Constrained Assignment In Spatial Databases, Hou U Leong, Man Lung Yiu, Kyriakos Mouratidis, Nikos Mamoulis

Kyriakos MOURATIDIS

Given a point set P of customers (e.g., WiFi receivers) and a point set Q of service providers (e.g., wireless access points), where each q 2 Q has a capacity q.k, the capacity constrained assignment (CCA) is a matching M Q × P such that (i) each point q 2 Q (p 2 P) appears at most k times (at most nce) in M, (ii) the size of M is maximized (i.e., it comprises min{|P|,P q2Q q.k} pairs), and (iii) the total assignment cost (i.e., the sum of Euclidean distances within all pairs) is minimized. Thus, the CCA problem is …


Continuous Nearest Neighbor Monitoring In Road Networks, Kyriakos Mouratidis, Man Lung Yiu, Dimitris Papadias, Nikos Mamoulis Dec 2010

Continuous Nearest Neighbor Monitoring In Road Networks, Kyriakos Mouratidis, Man Lung Yiu, Dimitris Papadias, Nikos Mamoulis

Kyriakos MOURATIDIS

Recent research has focused on continuous monitoring of nearest neighbors (NN) in highly dynamic scenarios, where the queries and the data objects move frequently and arbitrarily. All existing methods, however, assume the Euclidean distance metric. In this paper we study k-NN monitoring in road networks, where the distance between a query and a data object is determined by the length of the shortest path connecting them. We propose two methods that can handle arbitrary object and query moving patterns, as well as °uctuations of edge weights. The ¯rst one maintains the query results by processing only updates that may invalidate …


Continuous Spatial Assignment Of Moving Users, Leong Hou U, Kyriakos Mouratidis, Nikos Mamoulis Dec 2010

Continuous Spatial Assignment Of Moving Users, Leong Hou U, Kyriakos Mouratidis, Nikos Mamoulis

Kyriakos MOURATIDIS

Consider a set of servers and a set of users, where each server has a coverage region (i.e., an area of service) and a capacity (i.e., a maximum number of users it can serve). Our task is to assign every user to one server subject to the coverage and capacity constraints. To offer the highest quality of service, we wish to minimize the average distance between users and their assigned server. This is an instance of a well-studied problem in operations research, termed optimal assignment. Even though there exist several solutions for the static case (where user locations are fixed), …


Continuous Monitoring Of Spatial Queries, Kyriakos Mouratidis Dec 2010

Continuous Monitoring Of Spatial Queries, Kyriakos Mouratidis

Kyriakos MOURATIDIS

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Continuous Monitoring Of Top-K Queries Over Sliding Windows, Kyriakos Mouratidis, Spiridon Bakiras, Dimitris Papadias Dec 2010

Continuous Monitoring Of Top-K Queries Over Sliding Windows, Kyriakos Mouratidis, Spiridon Bakiras, Dimitris Papadias

Kyriakos MOURATIDIS

Given a dataset P and a preference function f, a top-k query retrieves the k tuples in P with the highest scores according to f. Even though the problem is well-studied in conventional databases, the existing methods are inapplicable to highly dynamic environments involving numerous long-running queries. This paper studies continuous monitoring of top-k queries over a fixed-size window W of the most recent data. The window size can be expressed either in terms of the number of active tuples or time units. We propose a general methodology for top-k monitoring that restricts processing to the sub-domains of the workspace …


Shortest Path Computation On Air Indexes, Georgios Kellaris, Kyriakos Mouratidis Dec 2010

Shortest Path Computation On Air Indexes, Georgios Kellaris, Kyriakos Mouratidis

Kyriakos MOURATIDIS

Shortest path computation is one of the most common queries in location-based services that involve transportation net- works. Motivated by scalability challenges faced in the mo- bile network industry, we propose adopting the wireless broad- cast model for such location-dependent applications. In this model the data are continuously transmitted on the air, while clients listen to the broadcast and process their queries locally. Although spatial problems have been considered in this environment, there exists no study on shortest path queries in road networks. We develop the rst framework to compute shortest paths on the air, and demonstrate the practicality and …


A Threshold-Based Algorithm For Continuous Monitoring Of K Nearest Neighbors, Kyriakos Mouratidis, Dimitris Papadias, Spiridon Bakiras, Yufei Tao Dec 2010

A Threshold-Based Algorithm For Continuous Monitoring Of K Nearest Neighbors, Kyriakos Mouratidis, Dimitris Papadias, Spiridon Bakiras, Yufei Tao

Kyriakos MOURATIDIS

Assume a set of moving objects and a central server that monitors their positions over time, while processing continuous nearest neighbor queries from geographically distributed clients. In order to always report up-to-date results, the server could constantly obtain the most recent position of all objects. However, this naïve solution requires the transmission of a large number of rapid data streams corresponding to location updates. Intuitively, current information is necessary only for objects that may influence some query result (i.e., they may be included in the nearest neighbor set of some client). Motivated by this observation, we present a threshold-based algorithm …


Preference Queries In Large Multi-Cost Transportation Networks, Kyriakos Mouratidis, Yimin Lin, Man Lung Yiu Dec 2010

Preference Queries In Large Multi-Cost Transportation Networks, Kyriakos Mouratidis, Yimin Lin, Man Lung Yiu

Kyriakos MOURATIDIS

Research on spatial network databases has so far considered that there is a single cost value associated with each road segment of the network. In most real-world situations, however, there may exist multiple cost types involved in transportation decision making. For example, the different costs of a road segment could be its Euclidean length, the driving time, the walking time, possible toll fee, etc. The relative significance of these cost types may vary from user to user. In this paper we consider such multi-cost transportation networks (MCN), where each edge (road segment) is associated with multiple cost values. We formulate …