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Monochromatic and bichromatic ranked reverse boolean spatial keyword nearest neighbors search

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Recently, Reverse k Nearest Neighbors (RkNN) queries, returning every answer for which the query is one of its k nearest neighbors, have been extensively studied on the database research community. But the RkNN query cannot retrieve spatio-textual objects which are described by their spatial location and a set of keywords. Therefore, researchers proposed a RSTkNN query to find these objects, taking both spatial and textual similarity into consideration. However, the RSTkNN query cannot control the size of answer set and to be sorted according to the degree of influence on the query. In this paper, we propose a new problem Ranked Reverse Boolean Spatial Keyword Nearest Neighbors query called Ranked-RBSKNN query, which considers both spatial similarity and textual relevance, and returns t answers with most degree of influence. We propose a separate index and a hybrid index to process such queries efficiently. Experimental results on different real-world and synthetic datasets show that our approaches achieve better performance.

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This work was partially supported by Chinese NSFC project (61170020, 61402311, 61440053, 61402312), and the US National Science Foundation (IIS-1115417).

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  1. School of Computer Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215006, People’s Republic of China

    Pengpeng Zhao, Hailin Fang, Zhixu Li, Jiajie Xu, Jian Wu & Zhiming Cui

  2. Computer Science Department, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR, USA

    Victor S. Sheng

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Zhao, P., Fang, H., Sheng, V.S. et al. Monochromatic and bichromatic ranked reverse boolean spatial keyword nearest neighbors search. World Wide Web 20, 39–59 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11280-016-0399-8

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