Consulta espacial preferencial por palavra-chave

Abstract

With the popularity of devices that are able to annotate data with spatial information (latitude and longitude), the processing of spatial queries has received a lot of attention from the research community recently. In this dissertation, we study a new query type named Top-k Spatial Keyword Preference Query that selects objects of interest based on the textual relevance of other spatio-textual objects in their spatial neighborhood. This work introduces this new query type, presents three algorithms for processing the query efficiently and performs an experimental evaluation using real databases to study the performance of the proposed algorithms.