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Fuzzy Distance-Based Range Queries over Uncertain Moving Objects

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Data obtained from real world are imprecise or uncertain due to the accuracy of positioning devices, updating protocols or characteristics of applications. On the other hand, users sometimes prefer to qualitatively express their requests with vague conditions and different parts of search region are in-equally important in some applications. We address the problem of efficiently processing the fuzzy range queries for uncertain moving objects whose whereabouts in time are not known exactly, for which the basic syntax is find objects always/sometimes near to the query issuer with the qualifying guarantees no less than a given threshold during a given temporal interval. We model the location uncertainty of moving objects on the utilization of probability density functions and describe the indeterminate boundary of query range with fuzzy set. We present the qualifying guarantee evaluation of objects, and propose pruning techniques based on the α-cut of fuzzy set to shrink the search space efficiently. We also design rules to reject non-qualifying objects and validate qualifying objects in order to avoid unnecessary costly numeric integrations in the refinement step. An extensive empirical study has been conducted to demonstrate the efficiency and effectiveness of algorithms under various experimental settings.

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  1. College of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, 210016, China

    Yi-Fei Chen (Member, CCF), Xiao-Lin Qin (Senior Member, CCF), Liang Liu (Student Member, CCF,) & Bo-Han Li (Member, CCF)

  2. College of Information and Control, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China

    Yi-Fei Chen (Member, CCF)

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This work was supported by the National High Technology Research and Development 863 Program of China under Grant No. 2007AA01Z404, the National Research Foundation for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China under Grant No. 20103218110017, the Science & Technology Pillar Program of Jiangsu Province of China under Grant No. BE2008135, and the Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 20100481133.

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Chen, YF., Qin, XL., Liu, L. et al. Fuzzy Distance-Based Range Queries over Uncertain Moving Objects. J. Comput. Sci. Technol. 27, 376–396 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11390-012-1229-9

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