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Location-based services (LBS) constitute an emerging application domain rapidly introduced in modern life habits. However, given that LBS already count a few years of commercial life, the services provided are rather naïve, not exploiting the current software capabilities and the recent research advances in the fields of spatial and spatio-temporal data management. The goal of this paper is to fill this gap by first presenting the next generation of location-based services and then, demonstrating their implementation which takes advantage of both modern commercial software and state-of-the-art spatial network and spatio-temporal databases techniques. Novel techniques are also proposed in fields non-thoroughly addressed by the research community, such as the prediction of future position of objects moving on a road network.
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Frentzos, E., Gratsias, K., Theodoridis, Y. (2007). Towards the Next Generation of Location-Based Services. In: Ware, J.M., Taylor, G.E. (eds) Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems. W2GIS 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4857. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76925-5_15
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