Processing spatial-keyword (SK) queries in Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) systems

Proceedings of the International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, SSDBM

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 16-25

  Hariharan, Ramaswamy ^a   Hore, Bijit ^a   Chen, Li ^a   Mehrotra, Sharad ^a  

^a Ringgold Standard Institution Informatics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

DISASTER RESPONSE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION RETRIEVALS (GIR); KEYWORD QUERIES; LOCATION-BASED INFORMATION; MEDICAL FACILITY; NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; TEXTUAL DESCRIPTION;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 46649111511     PISSN: 10993371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SSDBM.2007.22     Document Type: Conference Paper

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