Monitoring reverse top-k queries over mobile devices

  • Authors:
  • Akrivi Vlachou;Christos Doulkeridis;Kjetil Nørvåg

  • Affiliations:
  • AUEB, Athens, Greece;AUEB, Athens, Greece;NTNU, Trondheim, Norway

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 10th ACM International Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In typical mobile applications, mobile users seek points of interest in their vicinity (e.g., nearby restaurants) that best match their preferences. We assume a set of points of interest described by a combination of static and dynamic attributes, and a set of mobile users mi, each associated with a weighting vector wi, which expresses mi's preferences over the aforementioned attribute set. The best points of interest for each mobile user correspond to the results of a top-k query, defined by the weighting vector wi, which is performed over the combined set of static and dynamic attributes. The dynamic attribute is the current distance between the mobile user and the point of interest. Under these assumptions, the potential customers of a given point of interest q are the mobile users whose weighting vectors wi belong to the reverse top-k set of q. In this paper, we define the distance-based reverse top-k query suitable for mobile environments. The problem we target is given a query point q, how to efficiently monitor q's distance-based reverse top-k result set. To address this problem, we introduce novel algorithms that enable efficient monitoring of distance-based reverse top-k result sets over mobile devices. Our experimental evaluation demonstrates the efficiency of our techniques for a wide variety of diverse setups.