• Journal of Korea Spatial Information System Society
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.11-19
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• 2008

Recently, advances in mobile devices and wireless communication technologies require research on various location-based services. As a result, many studies on processing k-nearest neighbor query, which is most im portant one in location-based services, have been done. Most of existing studies use pre-computation technique to improve retrieval performance by computing network distance between POIs and nodes beforehand in spatial networks. However, they have a drawback that they can not deal with effectively the update of POIs to be searched. In this paper, we propose a distributed grid scheme using S-GRID to overcome the disadvantage of the existing work as well as to manage the location information of a large number of moving objects in efficient way. In addition, we describe a k-nearest neighbor(k-NN) query processing algorithm for the proposed distributed grid scheme. Finally, we show the efficiency of our distributed grid scheme by making a performance comparison between the k-NN query processing algorithm of our scheme and that of S-GRID.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2011.06c
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• pp.153-156
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• 2011

최근 많은 관심을 받고 있는 증강현실 위치기반 서비스와 같이 사용자의 한정된 시야각이 존재하는 상황에서 사용자가 원하는 데이터를 효과적으로 제공하기 위하여 본 논문에서는 새로운 위치기반 질의인 시야 최근접 질의 (VFNN: View Field Nearest Neighbor Queries)를 소개한다. VFNN 질의는 사용자의 시야각내에 위치하는 가장 가까운 데이터를 검색한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 VFNN 질의 처리 알고리즘은 가장 널리 활용되고 있는 공간 데이터 색인 구조인 $R^*$-tree를 사용한다. 특히, 질의 점과 MBR 사이의 최소거리인 MINDIST뿐만 아니라, 질의 점과 MBR 사이의 최대 각, 최소 각을 정의한다. 이를 활용하여 $R^*$-tree 탐색 시 질의 결과 값을 포함하지 않는 노드들을 연산에서 제외함으로써 질의 처리의 효율성을 향상시킨다. 마지막으로 실험을 통하여 VFNN 질의 처리 알고리즘의 성능을 평가한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Association of Geographic Inforamtion Studies Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.188-194
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• 2008

최근 모바일 기기 및 무선 통신의 발달로 인하여 다양한 위치 기반 서비스에 대한 연구가 증대되고 있으며, 이러한 위치 기반 서비스의 대표적 질의인 k-최근접 질의를 효율적으로 처리하기 위한 연구가 활발히 수행되어 왔다. 그러나 기존 연구들은 단일 서버 구조로서 대용량 이동객체의 위치정보를 효율적으로 관리할 수 없다는 단점을 갖는다. 본 논문에서는 대용량 이동객체의 위치정보를 분산된 서버에서 효율적으로 관리하기 위하여 분산 그리드 기법을 설계한다. 아울러 제안하는 분산 그리드 기법을 위한 k-최근접 질의처리 알고리즘을 제시한다.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.36 no.5
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• pp.405-410
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• 2009

This paper proposes an efficient path finding scheme capable of searching the paths to k static objects from a given query point, aiming at both improving the legacy k-nearest neighbor search and making it easily applicable to the road network environment. To the end of improving the speed of finding one-to-many paths, the modified A* obviates the duplicated part of node scans involved in the multiple executions of a one-to-one path finding algorithm. Additionally, the cost to the each object found in this step makes it possible to finalize the k objects according to the network distance from the candidate set as well as to order them by the path cost. Experiment results show that the proposed scheme has the accuracy of around 100% and improves the search speed by $1.3{\sim}3.0$ times of k-nearest neighbor searches, compared with INE, post-Dijkstra, and $na{\ddot{i}}ve$ method.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.11D no.2
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• pp.269-280
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• 2004

The Pyramid-Technique is based on mapping n-dimensional space data into one-dimensional data and expresses it as a B+-tree. By solving the problem of search time complexity the pyramid technique also prevents the effect of "phenomenon of dimensional curse" which is caused by treatment of hypercube range query in n-dimensional data space. The SPY-TEC applies the space division strategy in pyramid method and uses spherical range query suitable for similarity search so that Improves the search performance. However, nearest neighbor query is more efficient than range query because it is difficult to specify range in similarity search. Previously proposed index methods perform well only in the specific distribution of data. In this paper, we propose an efficient searching technique for nearest neighbor object using PdR-Tree suggested to improve the search performance for high dimensional data such as multimedia data. Test results, which uses simulation data with various distribution as well as real data, demonstrate that PdR-Tree surpasses both the Pyramid-Technique and SPY-TEC in views of search performance.rformance.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.59-62
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• 2006

최근접 질의 (NN: Nearest Neighbor Query)는 질의 요청자와 가장 가까운 곳에 위치한 대상 객체를 검색하기 위한 질의로서, 이 질의 방법을 실세계 이동 객체에 바로 적용하였을 경우, 실세계의 도로정보를 고려하지 않아 적절한 결과를 제공하지 못한다. 예를 들어, 사용자의 이동 방향과는 반대 방향에 위치한 객체가 질의 결과로 반환 될 경우, 사용자가 검색된 객체에 접근하기 위한 시간과 비용이 증가하는 문제가 발생한다. 또한 질의 객체와 대상 객체가 모두 이동할 경우에는 일정시점에서 질의한 결과는 조금만 시간이 지나면 유효하지 않게 된다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위하여 질의 객체와 데이터 객체가 모두 이동 객체인 경우에 적합하게 사용될 수 있도록 이동체의 궤적 정보를 방향정보 가중치로 환산한 근접 질의처리 방법을 제안한다.

• 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 Korea Spatial Information System Society
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.9-18
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• 2009

Recently, due to the advanced technologies of mobile devices and wireless communication, there are many studies on telematics and LBS(location-based service) applications. because moving objects usually move on spatial networks, their locations are updated frequently, leading to the degradation of retrieval performance. To manage the frequent updates of moving objects' locations in an efficient way, a new distributed grid scheme, called DS-GRID (distributed S-GRID), and k-NN(k-nearest neighbor) query processing algorithm was proposed[1]. However, the result of k-NN query processing technique may be invalidated as the location of query and moving objects are changed. Therefore, it is necessary to study on continuous k-NN query processing algorithm. In this paper, we propose both MCE-CKNN and MBP(Monitoring in Border Point)-CKNN algorithmss are S-GRID. The MCE-CKNN algorithm splits a query route into sub-routes based on cell and seproves retrieval performance by processing query in parallel way by. In addition, the MBP-CKNN algorithm stores POIs from the border points of each grid cells and seproves retrieval performance by decreasing the number of accesses to the adjacent cells. Finally, it is shown from the performance analysis that our CKNN algorithms achieves 15-53% better retrieval performance than the Kolahdouzan's algorithm.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.35 no.5
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• pp.447-458
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• 2008

In this paper, we address an efficient processing scheme for k-nearest neighbor queries to retrieve k static objects in road network databases. Existing methods cannot expect a query processing speed-up by index structures in road network databases, since it is impossible to build an index by the network distance, which cannot meet the triangular inequality requirement, essential for index creation, but only possible in a totally ordered set. Thus, these previous methods suffer from a serious performance degradation in query processing. Another method using pre-computed network distances also suffers from a serious storage overhead to maintain a huge amount of pre-computed network distances. To solve these performance and storage problems at the same time, this paper proposes a novel approach that creates an index for moving objects by approximating their network distances and efficiently processes k-nearest neighbor queries by means of the approximate index. For this approach, we proposed a systematic way of mapping each moving object on a road network into the corresponding absolute position in the m-dimensional space. To meet the triangular inequality this paper proposes a new notion of average network distance, and uses FastMap to map moving objects to their corresponding points in the m-dimensional space. After then, we present an approximate indexing algorithm to build an R*-tree, a multidimensional index, on the m-dimensional points of moving objects. The proposed scheme presents a query processing algorithm capable of efficiently evaluating k-nearest neighbor queries by finding k-nearest points (i.e., k-nearest moving objects) from the m-dimensional index. Finally, a variety of extensive experiments verifies the performance enhancement of the proposed approach by performing especially for the real-life road network databases.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.8
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• pp.47-58
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose a continuous k-nearest neighborhood query processing method for updating the query results in real-time over mobile peer-to-peer environments. The proposed method disseminates a monitoring region to efficiently monitor the k-nearest neighbor peers. The Monitoring Region is created to assure at least k peers as the result of the query within the time range using the vector of neighbor peers. In the propose method, the monitoring region is valid for a long time because it is calculated by the vector of neighbor peers of the query peer. Therefore, the proposed method decreases the cost of re-processing by monitoring region invalidation. In order to show the superiority of the proposed method, we compare it with the previous schemes through performance evaluation.