Dynamic Spatial Clustering for Intelligent Mobile Information Sharing and Dissemination

  • Authors:
  • Eddie C. Shek;Giovanni Giuffrida;Suhas Joshi;Son Dao

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • SSD '99 Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Advances in Spatial Databases
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

Intelligent Mobile Information Systems support information-centered applications that require support for a large number of distributed mobile users collaborating on a common mission and with interests in a common situation domain. A mobile user operating in the field changes location, consumes resources, investigates situations "on the horizon," and performs other incrementally evolving activities. A mobile user's information needs are therefore continually evolving in a neighborhood of interrelated data centered on the user's current location. Broadcast data dissemination is most effective when each broadcast information packet has multiple interested parties. To maximize the value of multicast dissemination, we dynamically cluster similar user profiles into aggregate user classifications that are served by independent multicast channels of custom information packets. Mobile user locations are also continuously tracked and mapped onto a cartographic representation of the real scenario. Spatial proximity between users is then computed by taking into account real boundaries as described in the cartographic map. Spatial information and spatial relationships among mobile users are then provided to the clustering algorithm with an eventual improved quality of the disseminated data.