DATE: Thursday, August 26, 2004
TIME: Noon - 1 pm
PLACE: Hamerschlag Hall D-210
SPEAKER:
Baihua Zheng
Singapore Management University
TITLE:
Location-based Information Services via Wireless Broadcast Systems
ABSTRACT:
Owing to the advent of wireless networking and personal digital devices, information systems in the era of mobile computing are expected to be able to handle a tremendous amount of traffic and service requests from the users. Wireless data broadcast, thanks to its high scalability, is particularly suitable for meeting such a challenge. Indexing techniques have been developed for wireless data broadcast systems in order to conserve the scarce power resources in mobile clients. However, most of the previous studies do not take into account the impact of location information of users. In this talk, we address the issues of supporting spatial queries (including window queries, kNN queries, and continuous-nearest-neighbor queries) of location-dependent information via wireless data broadcast.
BIO:
Baihua Zheng received a PhD in computer science from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She is a member of the IEEE and the ACM. Currently, she is an assistant professor in the School of Information Systems at Singapore Management University. Her research interests include mobile and pervasive computing, and spatial databases.
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