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    Enhancing Sedona (formerly GeoSpark) with Efficient k Nearest Neighbor Join Processing

    Sedona (formerly GeoSpark) is an in-memory cluster computing system for processing large-scale spatial data, which extends the core of Apache Spark to support spatial datatypes, partitioning techniques, indexes, ...

    Francisco García-García, Antonio Corral, Luis Iribarne in Model and Data Engineering (2021)

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    MRSLICE: Efficient RkNN Query Processing in SpatialHadoop

    Nowadays, with the continuously increasing volume of spatial data, it is difficult to execute spatial queries efficiently in spatial data-intensive applications, because of the limited computational capability...

    Francisco García-García, Antonio Corral, Luis Iribarne in Model and Data Engineering (2019)

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    The Virtuality Continuum and Storytelling: Simulation, Interactivity, User Experience and Interaction Design in Virtual and Mixed Environments. A STEAM Based Approach

    Virtual reality and digital environments are phenomena that have several theoretical and experimental approaches different domains research fields. The interactivity, simulation, or immersion in virtual enviro...

    Jose Luis Rubio-Tamayo in Advances in Human Factors in Simulation an… (2018)

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    Voronoi-Diagram Based Partitioning for Distance Join Query Processing in SpatialHadoop

    SpatialHadoop is an extended MapReduce framework supporting global indexing techniques that partition spatial data across several machines and improve query processing performance compared to traditional Hadoo...

    Francisco García-García, Antonio Corral, Luis Iribarne in Model and Data Engineering (2018)

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    RkNN Query Processing in Distributed Spatial Infrastructures: A Performance Study

    The Reverse k-Nearest Neighbor (RkNN) problem, i.e. finding all objects in a dataset that have a given query point among their corresponding k-nearest neighbors, has received increasing attention in the past year...

    Francisco García-García, Antonio Corral, Luis Iribarne in Model and Data Engineering (2017)

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    A Comparison of Distributed Spatial Data Management Systems for Processing Distance Join Queries

    Due to the ubiquitous use of spatial data applications and the large amounts of spatial data that these applications generate, the processing of large-scale distance joins in distributed systems is becoming in...

    Francisco García-García, Antonio Corral in Advances in Databases and Information Syst… (2017)

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    SliceNBound: Solving Closest Pairs and Distance Join Queries in Apache Spark

    The (K) Closest-Pair(s) Query, KCPQ, consists in finding the (K) closest pair(s) of objects between two spatial datasets. Recently, several systems that enhance Apache Spark with spatial-awareness have been p...

    George Mavrommatis, Panagiotis Moutafis in Advances in Databases and Information Syst… (2017)

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    Enhancing SpatialHadoop with Closest Pair Queries

    Given two datasets P and Q, the K Closest Pair Query (KCPQ) finds the K closest pairs of objects from \(P \times Q\) ...

    Francisco García-García, Antonio Corral in Advances in Databases and Information Syst… (2016)

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    XPath for Querying GML-Based Representation of Urban Maps

    Geography Markup Language (GML) has been established as the standard language for the transport, storage and modelling of geographic information. In this paper we study how to adapt the XPath que...

    Jesús M. Almendros-Jiménez in Computational Science and Its Applications… (2011)

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    Geodetic Research on Deception Island

    Deception Island (62.93° S, 60.57°W) is one of the few active volcanoes in the Antarctica, whose most recent eruptions took place in 1842, 1967, 1969 and 1970. In the following paper geodetic investigations ca...

    Manuel Berrocoso, Alberto Fernández-Ros, Cristina Torrecillas in Antarctica (2006)