• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.335-346
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• 2002

LBS(Location Based Services) provide the location-based information to its mobile users. The primary functionality of these services is to provide useful information to its users at a minimum cost of resources. The functionality can be implemented through data mining techniques. However, conventional data mining researches have not been considered spatial and temporal aspects of data simultaneously. Therefore, these techniques are inappropriate to apply on the objects of LBS, which change spatial attributes over time. In this paper, we propose a new data mining technique for identifying the temporal patterns from the series of the locations of moving objects that have both temporal and spatial dimension. We use a spatial operation of contains to generalize the location of moving point and apply time constraints between the locations of a moving object to make a valid moving sequence. Finally, the spatio-temporal technique proposed in this paper is very practical approach in not only providing more useful knowledge to LBS, but also improving the quality of the services.

• Journal of Korea Spatial Information System Society
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• v.6 no.2 s.12
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• pp.23-37
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• 2004

Location Based Services(LBSs) in mobile environments become very popular recently. For efficient LBSs, spatial database management systems must need a spatial indexing scheme such as R-trees in order to manage the huge spatial database. However, it may need unnecessary disk accesses since it needs to access objects which are not actually concerned to user's location-based queries. In this paper, to support the location-based queries efficiently, we propose a CLR-tree(Cell Leveling R-tree) in which a dynamic cell is built up within the minimum bounding rectangle of R-trees' node. The cell level of nodes is compared with the query's cell level in location-based query processing and determines the minimum search space. Also, we propose the insertion, split, deletion, and search algorithms for CRL-trees. From the experimental results, we see that a CLR-tree is able to decrease $5{\sim}20%$ of disk accesses from those of R-trees. So, a CLR-tree can be used for fast accessing spatial objects to user's location-based queries in LBSs.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.07b
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• pp.211-213
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• 2005

최근의 위치 측위 기술과 무선 통신 기술의 발전에 따라 위치 기반 서비스에 대한 관심이 크게 증가하고 있다. 기존의 단일 노드 기반 시스템으로는 처리하기 힘든 휴대폰 사용자와 같은 대용량의 객체를 처리하기 위해 제시된 클러스터 기반 분산 컴퓨팅 구조로 GALIS 아키텍처가 제안되었다. 본 논문에서는 제시한 프로토타입은 그동안 구현된 기존 GALIS 프로토타입보다 개선된 구조로 SLDS에서 Global $Cell\_ID$를 적용하여 노드의 분할 합병 시 발생할 수 있는 처리 비용을 감소시켰다. 또한 LLDS에서는 필터링을 통해 손실들 수 있는 위치 데이타 정보를 보다 신뢰할 수 있는 데이타로 만들기 위한 기능을 추가하여 질의 시 발생할 수 있는 여러 가지 상황을 대비할 수 있게 되었다.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.31 no.5
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• pp.479-491
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• 2004

Location information of mobile objects is applied to vehicle tracking, digital battlefields, location based services, and telematics. Their location coordinates are periodically measured and stored in the application systems. The linear function is mainly used to estimate the location information that is not in the system at the query time point. However, a new method is needed to improve uncertainties of the location representation, because the location estimation by linear function induces the estimation error. This paper proposes an application method of the cubic spline interpolation in order to reduce deviation of the location estimation by linear function. First, we define location information of the mobile object moving on the two-dimensional space. Next, we apply the cubic spline interpolation to location estimation of the proposed data model and describe algorithm of the estimation operation. Finally, the precision of this estimation operation model is experimented. The experimentation comes out more accurate results than the method by linear function, although the proposed location estimation function uses the small amount of information. The proposed method has an advantage that drops the cost of data storage space and communication for the management of location information of the mobile objects.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.115-121
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• 2007

Recently, Location Based Service including tracking and way-finding services has been activated rapidly in the ubiquitous computing environment. According as the ubiquitous computing environment is developed, various types of sensor to acquire various data including location of the moving object are used widely, and acquired sensor data becomes abundant. However, the existing location management system based on a single location sensor is difficult to support LBS efficiently in the ubiquitous computing environment. In this paper, therefore, we propose the location management system in the ubiquitous computing environment that can manage the location data and the various sensor data efficiently. In addition, the location management system adopts the core technology for efficiently storing and transferring a large-volume of various data such as location data and for efficiently processing the various requests from a variety of servers and sensors. Especially, our architecture that is presented in this paper can support context-aware services and autonomous services efficiently in the ubiquitous computing environment.

• 한국공간정보시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.12a
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• pp.105-112
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• 2004

최근 이동 객체의 위치정보를 활용한 위치 찾기 서비스, 교통 정보 서비스, 긴급 구조 서비스, 모바일 광고 서비스와 같은 위치 기반 서비스가 부각되고 있다. 이와 같은 다양한 위치 기반 서비스를 제공하기 위해서는 대용량의 이동 객체의 위치정보를 신속하게 저장, 검색, 갱신할 수 있는 저장시스템이 필수적으로 요구된다. 그러나, 이동 객체 위치정보 저장시스템으로 기존의 데이타베이스 시스템을 사용할 경우 불필요한 트랜잭션 연산으로 인하여 저장 및 검색 시 오버헤드가 발생하고, 위치 기반 서비스에 필요한 다양한 질의 및 요구사항을 지원하지 못한다는 문제점이 있다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 대용량의 위치정보를 효과적으로 저장 및 검색할 수 있으며, 위치 기반 서비스에서 요구하는 궤적 질의 기능, 위치 트리거 기능, 위치 보정 기능, 이동 객체 아이디 기반 클러스터 기능 등을 지원하는 대용량 위치정보 저장시스템을 개발하였다. 또한, 대용량 위치정보 저장시스템의 성능 평가를 위해서 상용 데이타베이스 시스템인 SQL-Server와 비교 실험하여 성능의 우수함을 입증하였다.

• 한국공간정보시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.67-73
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• 2005

최근 이동체의 위치 데이타를 활용하는 위치 기반 서비스에 대한 관심이 급증하고 있다. 이러한 위치 기반 서비스에서 이용되는 대용량 위치 데이타를 효율적으로 관리하기 위한 아키텍처로서 클러스터 기반 분산 컴퓨팅 구조를 갖는 GALIS(Gracefully Aging Location Information System) 아키텍처가 제안되었다. GALIS는 비균등 2-단계 그리드를 사용하여 노드들의 부하 분산 및 색인을 수행한다. 하지만 비균등 2-단계 그리드의 분할 알고리즘은 이동체가 특정 지역에 편중되는 경우 불필요한 노드를 생성하는 문제를 가지고 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 이동체의 다양한 분포에 대하여 더욱 효율적인 노드 분할 알고리즘을 제시한다. 본 논문에서 제시한 노드 분할 알고리즘은 이동체의 현재 위치에 따른 공간적 분포를 고려하기 때문에 이동체가 특정 지역에 편중되는 경우에도 불필요한 노드를 생성하지 않고 효율적인 부하 분산을 수행할 수 있으며, 분산 시스템에서 중요시되는 균형 있는 부하 분산을 수행할 수 있다. 또한, 가상 노드 분할 시뮬레이터를 구현하여 다양한 이동체 데이타 분포 형태에 대해 실험하였으며, 이러한 실험을 통하여 기존의 알고리즘보다 더욱 효율적으로 노드를 분할하는 것을 검증하였다.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.56-70
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• 2005

The results of location-dependent queries(LDQ) generally depend on the current locations of query issuers. Many mechanisms, e.g. broadcast scheme, hoarding, or racking policy, have been developed to improve the system peformance and provide better services, which are specialized for LDQs. Considering geographical adjacency of data and characteristics oi target area, caching policy and broadcast scheme affect the overall performance in LDQ. For this reason, we propose both the caching policy and broadcast scheme, which these features are reflected in. Based on the adjacency of data in LDQ, our broadcast scheme use Hilbert curve to cluster data. Moreover, in order to develop the caching policy suitable for LDQ on urban area, we apply the moving distance of a MH(Mobile Host) to our caching policy We evaluate the performance of the caching policy measuring the workload of MHs and the correctness of LDQ results and the performance of the broadcast scheme measuring the average setup-time of MHs in our experiments. Finally, we expect that our caching policy Provides more correct answers when executing LDQ in focal cache and leads significant improvement of the performance of MHs. It also seems quite probable that our broadcast scheme leads improvement of battery life of the MH.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.1-11
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• 2006

It is possible to track the moving vehicle as well as to develop the location based services actively according to the progress of wireless telecommunication and GPS, to the spread of network, and to the miniaturization of cellular phone. To provide these location based services, it is necessary for an index technique to store and search too much moving object data rapidly. However the existing indices require a lot of costs to insert the data because they store every position data into the index directly. To solve this problem in this paper, we propose a buffer node operation and design a GU-tree(Group Update tree). The proposed buffer node method reduces the input cost effectively since the operation stores the moving object location data in a group, the buffer node as the unit of a non-leaf node. hnd then we confirm the effect of the buffer node operation which reduces the insert cost and increase the search performance in a time slice query from the experiment to compare the operation with some existing indices. The proposed tufter node operation would be useful in the environment to update locations frequently such as a transportation vehicle management and a tour-guide system.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.29 no.6
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• pp.441-452
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• 2002

If continuous moving objects are managed by conventional database, it is not possible for them to store all position information changed over time in the database. Therefore, a time period of regular rate is determined and position information of moving objects are discretely stored in the system for every time period. However, if continuous moving objects are managed as discrete model, we will have problems which cannot properly answer to the query about uncertain past or future position information. To solve this problem, in this paper, we propose the method and algorithm which use the history information stored in the same database, to estimate the past or future location of moving objects. The cubic spline interpolation is used to estimate the past location and the mean movement value of the history information is used to predict the future location of moving objects. Finally, from the location estimation experimentation of using virtual trajectory and location sample, we proved that the proposed cubic spline function has less error than the linear function.