Applications, 2nd Edition focuses on moving object management, from the location management perspective to determining how constantly changing locations affect the traditional database and data mining technology. The book specifically describes the topics of moving objects modeling and location tracking, indexing and querying, clustering, location uncertainty, traffic-aware navigation and privacy issues, as well as the application to intelligent transportation systems. Through the book, the readers will be made familiar with the cutting-edge technologies in moving object management that can be effectively applied in LBS and transportation contexts. The second edition of this book significantly expands the coverage of the latest research on location privacy, traffic-aware navigation and uncertainty. The book has also been reorganized, with nearly all chapters rewritten, and several new chapters have been added to address the latest topics on moving objects management. Xiaofeng Meng is a professor at the School of Information, Renmin University of China; Zhiming Ding is a professor at the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISCAS); Jiajie Xu is an assistant professor at the ISCAS.

We live in an age of rapid technological development. The Internet already affects our lives in many ways. Indeed, we continue to depend more, and more intrinsically, on the Internet, which is increasingly becoming a fundamental piece of societal infrastructure, just as water supply, electricity grids, and transportation networks have been for a long time. But while these other infrastructures are relatively static, the Internet is undergoing swift and fundamental change: Notably, the Internet is going mobile. The world has some 6.7 billion humans, 4 billion mobile phones, and 1.7 billion Internet users. The two most populous continents, Asia and Africa, have relatively low Internet penetration and hold the greatest potentials for growth. Their mobile phone users by far outnumber their Internet users, and the numbers are growing rapidly. China and India are each gaining about half a dozen million new phone users per month. Users across the globe as a whole increasingly embrace mobile Internet devices, with smart phone sales are starting to outnumber PC sales. Indeed, these and other facts suggest that the Internet stands to gain a substantial mobile component. This mega trend towards “mobile” is enabled by rapid and continuing advances in key technology areas such as mobile communication, consumer electronics, g- positioning, and computing. In short, this is the backdrop for this very timely book on moving objects by Xiaofeng Meng and Jidong Chen.

First uniform treatment of moving objects databases, the technology that supports GPS and RFID data analysis.

Object tracking could be a terribly difficult task within the presence of variability illumination condition, background motion, complicated object form, partial and full object occlusions. The main intention of an object trailer is to make the path of an object over time by characteristic its position in all frames of the video. This book is intended to educate the researchers in the field of tracking of moving object(s) in a video sequence. This book provides a path for the researchers to identify the works done by others in the same field and thereby to figure out the gap in the current knowledge. This book is organized into three Modules. Module 1 talks about the introduction of object detection and tracking. Module 2 discusses about the various studies of object tracking and motion detection. The views of the various authors about this hot research topic are discussed in this Module and Module 3 gives the conclusion of the entire research review.Object tracking could be a terribly difficult task within the presence of variability illumination condition, background motion, complicated object form, partial and full object occlusions. The main intention of an object trailer is to make the path of an object over time by characteristic its position in all frames of the video. This book is intended to educate the researchers in the field of tracking of moving object(s) in a video sequence. This book provides a path for the researchers to identify the works done by others in the same field and thereby to figure out the gap in the current knowledge. This book is organized into three Modules. Module 1 talks about the introduction of object detection and tracking. Module 2 discusses about the various studies of object tracking and motion detection. The views of the various authors about this hot research topic are discussed in this Module and Module 3 gives the conclusion of the entire research review.

In spatio-temporal systems, precise location data is desirable but often not available due to obfuscation, privacy, hardware inaccuracies, and other factors. Progress has been made in research which deals with the uncertainty of moving objects' location data. However, much of the existing work does not always consider factors such as constraints imposed by the topology of road networks, and harmonic integration between past movements, current, and prospective imprecise positions. In this thesis, we propose an approach that utilizes time, distance, and connectivity constraints of a road network to infer a moving object's past, present, and future locations more precisely when its exact location data is not available. The experimental results using real GPS trajectories confirm the efficiency of our proposed solution for reducing uncertainty and inferring historical, and future locations.