• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.24 no.10
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• pp.79-89
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• 2019

While most research focuses on the k-nearest neighbors (kNN) queries in the database community, an important type of proximity queries called k-farthest neighbors (kFN) queries has not received much attention. This paper addresses the problem of finding the k-farthest neighbors in road networks. Given a positive integer k, a query object q, and a set of data points P, a kFN query returns k data objects farthest from the query object q. Little attention has been paid to processing kFN queries in road networks. The challenge of processing kFN queries in road networks is reducing the number of network distance computations, which is the most prominent difference between a road network and a Euclidean space. In this study, we propose an efficient algorithm called FANS for k-FArthest Neighbor Search in road networks. We present a shared computation strategy to avoid redundant computation of the distances between a query object and data objects. We also present effective pruning techniques based on the maximum distance from a query object to data segments. Finally, we demonstrate the efficiency and scalability of our proposed solution with extensive experiments using real-world roadmaps.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.165-172
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• 2016

Morton codes play important roles in many parallel GPU applications for the nearest neighbor (NN) search in huge data and queries with its applications growing. This paper discusses and analyzes the meaning of Tero Karras's 32-bit 'unsigned int' Morton code algorithm for three-dimensional spatial information in $[0,1]^3$ and its geometric implications. Based on this, this paper proposes 64-bit 'unsigned long long' version of Morton code and compares the results in both CPU vs. GPU and 32-bit vs. 64-bit versions. The proposed GPU algorithm runs around 1000 times faster than the CPU version.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.58-71
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• 2002

Generally, multi-dimensional data such as image and spatial data require large amount of storage space. There is a limit to store and manage those large amount of data in single workstation. If we manage the data on parallel computing environment which is being actively researched these days, we can get highly improved performance. In this paper, we propose a parallel high-dimensional index structure that exploits the parallelism of the parallel computing environment. The proposed index structure is nP(processor)-n$\times$mD(disk) architecture which is the hybrid type of nP-nD and lP-nD. Its node structure increases fan-out and reduces the height of a index tree. Also, A range search algorithm that maximizes I/O parallelism is devised, and it is applied to K-nearest neighbor queries. Through various experiments, it is shown that the proposed method outperforms other parallel index structures.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.06c
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• pp.124-129
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• 2007

지금까지 질의 점을 중심으로 최근접 객체(Nearest Neighbor : NN)를 찾는 다양한 연구가 진행되었다. 하지만 이 방법은 질의 점과 객체의 거리만을 고려하기 때문에 질의 점을 둘러싸고 있는 객체들을 찾을 수 없다는 문제점이 있다. 이것을 해결하기 위해서 제안 된 것이 최근접 주변객체(Nearest Surrounder : NS) 질의 처리이다. 최근접 주변 객체는 질의 점을 둘러싸고 있으면서 가장 가까운 객체들을 찾는 것에 대한 연구이다. 기존의 NS를 찾는 방법은 객체 인덱싱을 위하여 R-tree를 사용하며, 질의 점과 최소경계사각형(minimum bounding rectangle : MBR)이 이루는 각의 범위를 계산한다. 계산 수행 결과 각 MBR들 이 이루는 각의 범위가 겹치는 부분이 발생하면 해당 각 범위 내에서 질의 점으로부터 최소거리에 있는 MBR을 선택해야 하므로 범위별 질의 점과 MBR들의 최대 최소 거리를 구해야 한다. 이러한 범위별 계산 과정은 계산 비용을 높이는 단점이 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 NS를 필요로 하는 영역에서 각 범위별 겹쳐지는 MBR들의 꼭지점 좌표만을 비교한다. 이것은 기존 연구에서 계산 비용을 높이는 공통 각 계산 절차를 개선하고, 최대 최소 거리 계산 수행은 생략하여 NS를 찾는다. 제안 기법을 위해 논문에서 사용하는 각 알고리즘은 이전 연구보다 나은 계산비용 절감 효과를 가져 올 수 있다.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.651-662
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• 2000

멀티미디어 데이터베이스에서 k-최근접 질의는 가장 일반적이며, 비공간 검색 조건이 포함된 경우가 많다. 현재까지 이러한 질의를 위한 여러 기법 중에서 Hjaltason과 Samet이 제안한 점증적 최근접 알고리즘에 가장 유용하다고 알려져 있다. 질의 처리를 위해 상위 연산자가 k보다 많은 객체를 요구할 때, 이 알고리즘은 처음부터 질의를 재실행하지 않고 다음 객체를 전달할 수 있기 때문이다. 그런데, 이 알고리즘에서 사용하는 R-트리는 결국에는 비공간 검색조건을 만족시키지 않을 투플 후보들을 부분적으로 제거할 수가 없기 때문에 비효율적이다. 본 논문에서 우리는 이 알고리즘을 보완한 RS-트리 기반 점증적 최근접 알고리즘을 제안한다. RS-트리는 R-트리와, 그 보조 트리로서 계층적 시스니쳐 파일을 기반으로 하는 S-트리로 구성된다. S-트리는 R-트리를 탐색하는 과정에서 많은 불필요한 투플을 제거하는 역할을 수행한다. 본 논문에서는 실험을 통해 RS-트리가 Hjaltason과 Samet의 알고리즘의 성능을 향상시킬 수 있음을 보인다.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.22-30
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• 2023

The portable mobile devices with high performance and high speed 5G network activate and explode the demands for ubiquitous information services that remove the limitations of time for the communication and places to request for the information. NN (Nearest Neighbor) search is one of the most important types of queries to be processed efficiently in the information services. Various indexes have been proposed to support efficient NN search in the wireless broadcast system. The indexes adopting Hilbert curve, grid partition or Voronoi diagram enable the clients to search for NN quickly in the wireless broadcast channel. It is necessary that an efficient means to evaluate the performances of various indexes. In this paper, we propose an open framework that can adopt a variety of indexing schemes and evaluate and compare the performances of them. The proposed framework is organized with open and flexible structure that can adopt hybrid indexing schemes extensible to Voronoi diagram as well as simple indexing schemes. With the implemented framework, we demonstrate the efficiency and scalability and flexibility of the proposed framework by evaluating various indexing schemes for NN query.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.34 no.5
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• pp.448-464
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• 2007

Location-Based Services (LBSs) provide results to queries according to the location of the client issuing the query. In LBS, techniques such as caching and prefetching are effective approaches to reducing the data transmission from a server and query response time. However, they can lead to cache inefficiency and network overload due to the client's mobility and query pattern. To solve these drawbacks, we propose a semantic prefetching (SP) scheme using prefetching segment concept and improved cache replacement policies. When a mobile client enters a new service area, called semantic prefetching area, proposed scheme fetches the necessary semantic information from the server in advance. The mobile client maintains the information in its own cache for query processing of location-dependent data (LDD) in mobile computing environment. The performance of the proposed scheme is investigated in relation to various environmental variables, such as the mobility and query pattern of user, the distributions of LDDs and applied cache replacement strategies. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme is more efficient than the well-known existing scheme for range query and nearest neighbor query. In addition, applying the two queries dynamically to query processing improves the performance of the proposed scheme.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.865-870
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• 2005

The latest Global Positioning System, wireless communications technology and Location-Based Service bring about the rapid developments of telematics application areas. In the moving object database for telematics, it is very important to deal with database queries related to the real time current positions of a moving objects and the valid tine of the query results as well. In this paper, we propose how to get not only the current result of query but also the valid time and the result after the valid time when a query point and objects are moving simultaneously. We would like to predict the valid time by formula because the current results will be incorrect due to the characteristic of the continuous movements of the moving objects and the future results can not be calculated by iterative computations.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.1096-1107
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• 2019

In this paper, we present an ontology-based approach to labeling influential topics of scientific articles. First, to look for influential topics from scientific article, topic modeling is performed, and then social network analysis is applied to the selected topic models. Abstracts of research papers related to data mining published over the 20 years from 1995 to 2015 are collected and analyzed in this research. Second, to interpret and to explain selected influential topics, the UniDM ontology is constructed from Wikipedia and serves as concept hierarchies of topic models. Our experimental results show that the subjects of data management and queries are identified in the most interrelated topic among other topics, which is followed by that of recommender systems and text mining. Also, the subjects of recommender systems and context-aware systems belong to the most influential topic, and the subject of k-nearest neighbor classifier belongs to the closest topic to other topics. The proposed framework provides a general model for interpreting topics in topic models, which plays an important role in overcoming ambiguous and arbitrary interpretation of topics in topic modeling.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and information Science
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.134-144
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• 1996

In this paper, we propose a new access method, called the HG-tree, to support indexing and retrieval by image content in large image databases. Image content is represented by a point in a multidimensional feature space. The types of queries considered are the range query and the nearest-neighbor query, both in a multidimensional space. Our goals are twofold: increasing the storage utilization and decreasing the area covered by the directory regions of the index tree. The high storage utilization and the small directory area reduce the number of nodes that have to be touched during the query processing. The first goal is achieved by absorbing splitting if possible, and when splitting is necessary, converting two nodes to three. The second goal is achieved by maintaining the area occupied by the directory region minimally on the directory nodes. We note that there is a trade-off between the two design goals, but the HG-tree is so flexible that it can control the trade-off. We present the design of our access method and associated algorithms. In addition, we report the results of a series of tests, comparing the proposed access method with the buddy-tree, which is one of the most successful point access methods for a multidimensional space. The results show the superiority of our method.