Searching the world wide web for local services and facilities: A review on the patterns of location-based queries

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3739 LNCS, Issue , 2005, Pages 91-101

  Asadi, Saeid ^a   Chang, Chung Yi ^a   Zhou, Xiaofang ^a   Diederich, Joachim ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF SHARJAH   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION THEORY; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEARCH ENGINES; SURVEYS; WEB BROWSERS;

GEOSPATIAL QUERIES; LOCATION-BASED QUERIES; USER'S ENVIRONMENT;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 33646496333     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11563952_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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