Location services are used in mobile ad hoc and hybrid networks either to locate the geographic position of a given node in the network or for locating a data item (content). One of the main usages of position location services is in location based routing algorithms. In particular, geographic routing protocols can route messages more efficiently to their destinations based on the destination n...

Location-aware services are a promising way of exploiting the special possibilities created by ubiquitous mobile devices and wireless communication. Advanced location-aware applications will require highly accurate information about the geographic location of mobile objects and functionality that goes beyond simply querying the user's position, for example determining all mobile objects inside ...

Location indicators are text segments from which a geographic scope can be inferred, e.g. adjectives, demonyms (names for inhabitants of a place), geographic codes, orthographic variants, and abbreviations can be mapped to location names in one or more inferential steps. In this paper, the normalization of location indicators and treating morphology of location indicators for geographic informa...

Beneficiary information was linked to agency information for the beneficiary’s primary home health agency. Approximately 6 percent of Medicare beneficiaries were served by more than one home health agency. In this case, we used the agency that furnished the most care to the beneficiary. Beneficiary characteristics include age, race (white or non-white), sex, diagnosis category, and geographic l...

Estimating the geographic location of images is a task which has received a lot of attention in recent years. Large numbers of items uploaded to Flickr do not contain GPS-based latitude/longitude coordinates, although it would be beneficial to obtain such geographic information for a wide variety of potential applications such as travelogues and visual place descriptions. While most works in th...