Reverse ranking query over imprecise spatial data

  • Authors:
  • Ken C. K. Lee;Mao Ye;Wang-Chien Lee

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA;Pennsylvania State University, PA;Pennsylvania State University, PA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 1st International Conference and Exhibition on Computing for Geospatial Research & Application
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The reverse rank of a (data) object o with respect to a given query object q (that measures the relative nearness of q to o) is said to be k when q is the k-th nearest neighbor of o in a geographical space. Based on the notion of reverse ranks, a Reverse Ranking (RR) query determines t objects with the smallest k's with respect to a given query object q. In many situations that locations of objects and a query object can be imprecise, objects would receive multiple possible k's. In this paper, we propose a notion of expected reverse ranks and evaluation of RR queries over imprecise data based on expected reverse ranks. For any object o, an expected reverse rank kk is a weighted average of possible reverse ranks for individual instances of o with respect to different instances of a given query object q by taking their probabilities into account. We devise and present incremental kk computation and two kk-Estimating algorithms to efficiently evaluate RR queries over imprecise data. The efficiency of our approach is demonstrated through experiments.