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  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,224 Views
21 Pages

2 April 2019

The wide-ranging application of location-based services (LBSs) through the use of mobile devices and wireless networks has brought about many critical privacy challenges. To preserve the location privacy of users, most existing location privacy-prese...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,698 Views
15 Pages

18 December 2014

A location-aware service (LAS) is an imperative topic in ambient intelligence; an LAS recommends suitable utilities to a user based on the user’s location and context. However, current LASs have several problems, and most of these services do not la...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,645 Views
19 Pages

9 September 2023

The maintenance service network is always designed as a multi-level service network to provide timely maintenance service for failed machinery, and is rarely studied in agriculture. Thus, this paper focuses on a three-level maintenance service networ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
821 Views
28 Pages

Device-Driven Service Allocation in Mobile Edge Computing with Location Prediction

  • Qian Zeng,
  • Xiaobo Li,
  • Yixuan Chen,
  • Minghao Yang,
  • Xingbang Liu,
  • Yuetian Liu and
  • Shiwei Xiu

11 May 2025

With the rapid deployment of edge base stations and the widespread application of 5G technology, Mobile Edge Computing (MEC)has gradually transitioned from a theoretical concept to practical implementation, playing a key role in emerging human-machin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,561 Views
19 Pages

11 May 2018

A new collaborative filtered recommendation strategy was proposed for existing privacy and security issues in location services. In this strategy, every user establishes his/her own position profiles according to their daily position data, which is p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,059 Views
20 Pages

Urbanization has been a flourishing process in a wide range of developing countries. The planning and construction of public service facilities is a crucial component of this process. Existing planning methods of public service facilities focused on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,712 Views
16 Pages

22 April 2020

Location-based routing protocols for vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) use location information to determine routing decisions. This information is provided by a location service that is queried by nodes in order to properly forward packets to commu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,465 Views
18 Pages

25 November 2016

With the wide use of mobile sensing application, more and more location-embedded data are collected and stored in mobile clouds, such as iCloud, Samsung cloud, etc. Using these data, the cloud service provider (CSP) can provide location-based service...

  • Article
  • Open Access
96 Citations
5,320 Views
20 Pages

Network Location-Aware Service Recommendation with Random Walk in Cyber-Physical Systems

  • Yuyu Yin,
  • Fangzheng Yu,
  • Yueshen Xu,
  • Lifeng Yu and
  • Jinglong Mu

8 September 2017

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) have received much attention from both academia and industry. An increasing number of functions in CPS are provided in the way of services, which gives rise to an urgent task, that is, how to recommend the suitable servic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,802 Views
21 Pages

1 April 2019

Recently, the growing ubiquity of location-based service (LBS) technology has increased the likelihood of users’ privacy breaches due to the exposure of their real-life information to untrusted third parties. Extensive use of such LBS applicati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,915 Views
15 Pages

Proximity-Based Asynchronous Messaging Platform for Location-Based Internet of Things Service

  • Hyeong Gon Jo,
  • Tae Yong Son,
  • Seol Young Jeong and
  • Soon Ju Kang

The Internet of Things (IoT) opens up tremendous opportunities to provide location-based applications. However, despite the services around a user being physically adjacent, common IoT platforms use a centralized structure, like a cloud-computing arc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,217 Views
19 Pages

4 March 2019

The spatial allocation rationality of the service facilities of residential areas, which is affected by the scope of the population and the capacity of service facilities, is meaningful for harmonious urban development. The growth of the internet, es...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,302 Views
19 Pages

An Energy Efficient Sink Location Service for Continuous Objects in Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Cheonyong Kim,
  • Sangdae Kim,
  • Hyunchong Cho,
  • Sangha Kim and
  • Seungmin Oh

18 December 2020

In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), detection and report of continuous object, such as forest fire and toxic gas leakage, is one of the major applications. In large-scale continuous object tracking in WSNs, there might be many source nodes simultaneo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
14,472 Views
17 Pages

Sensing Landscape History with an Interactive Location Based Service

  • Ron Van Lammeren,
  • Martin Goossen and
  • Paul Roncken

9 September 2009

This paper introduces the STEAD approach for interpreting data acquired by a “human sensor”, who uses an informal interactive location-based service (iLBS) to sense cultural-historic facts and anecdotes of, and in the landscape. This user-generated d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,848 Views
22 Pages

26 May 2020

This paper investigates the problems of locating yards and allocating works of train formation among yards based on the train service network. It not only involves the modifications of the scales of existing yards, either improving, or downsizing or...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,497 Views
19 Pages

Continuous Maximum Coverage Location Problem with Arbitrary Shape of Service Areas and Regional Demand

  • Sergiy Yakovlev,
  • Sergiy Shekhovtsov,
  • Lyudmyla Kirichenko,
  • Olha Matsyi,
  • Dmytro Podzeha and
  • Dmytro Chumachenko

29 April 2025

This paper addresses the maximum coverage location problem in a generalized setting, where both facilities (service areas) and regional demand are modeled as continuous entities. Unlike traditional formulations, our approach allows for arbitrary shap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
864 Views
12 Pages

Recently, mobile web services have become a more emerging topic due to popularity of smart phones and laptops. Mobile web services are becoming popular because the growth of internet speeds. Mobile web service is not only useful for particular user,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,165 Views
22 Pages

8 April 2014

Location-aware service systems are a hot topic in diverse research fields including mobile commerce, ambient intelligence, remote sensing and ubiquitous computing. However, the timeliness and efficiency of such systems are two issues that have rarely...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,701 Views
24 Pages

30 April 2010

In this paper we propose an adaptive square-shaped trajectory (ASST)-based service location method to ensure load scalability in wireless sensor networks. This first establishes a square-shaped trajectory over the nodes that surround a target point c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,141 Views
21 Pages

11 January 2019

By utilizing mobile sinks in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), WSNs can be deployed in more challenging environments that cannot connect with the Internet, such as those that are isolated or dangerous, and can also achieve a balanced energy consumptio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,713 Views
14 Pages

11 July 2017

Location-based services (LBS), as one of the most popular location-awareness applications, has been further developed to achieve low-latency with the assistance of fog computing. However, privacy issues remain a research challenge in the context of f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
6,533 Views
18 Pages

A Map/INS/Wi-Fi Integrated System for Indoor Location-Based Service Applications

  • Chunyang Yu,
  • Haiyu Lan,
  • Fuqiang Gu,
  • Fei Yu and
  • Naser El-Sheimy

2 June 2017

In this research, a new Map/INS/Wi-Fi integrated system for indoor location-based service (LBS) applications based on a cascaded Particle/Kalman filter framework structure is proposed. Two-dimension indoor map information, together with measurements...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
8,594 Views
18 Pages

5 June 2018

This study presents features of location-based services (LBS) that influence usage intentions in users and the moderating effects of innovativeness for LBS in sustainable mobile-related industries. As LBS attributes, this study identifies location aw...

  • Article
  • Open Access
517 Views
21 Pages

30 June 2025

Geographic routing is an appealing method for wireless sensor networks, as it routes data packets solely based on nodes’ location information rather than global network topology. A fundamental requirement for geographic routing is that source n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,159 Views
18 Pages

5 September 2025

Product-service systems contribute to sustainable development through innovative service integration and novel customer value creation. However, the competitive advantage of sustainable product lifecycle service delivery hinges critically on the oper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
12,685 Views
18 Pages

30 March 2010

In order to provide the seamless navigation and positioning services for indoor environments, an indoor location based service (LBS) test bed is developed to integrate the indoor positioning system and the indoor three-dimensional (3D) geographic inf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
109 Citations
10,980 Views
18 Pages

22 February 2016

The location and contextual status (indoor or outdoor) is fundamental and critical information for upper-layer applications, such as activity recognition and location-based services (LBS) for individuals. In addition, optimizations of building manage...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,388 Views
22 Pages

A Comparison of Tourists’ Spatial–Temporal Behaviors Between Location-Based Service Data and Onsite GPS Tracks

  • Colby Parkinson,
  • Bing Pan,
  • Sophie A. Morris,
  • William L. Rice,
  • B. Derrick Taff,
  • Guangqing Chi and
  • Peter Newman

7 January 2025

Tourism and recreation managers rely on spatial-temporal data to measure visitors’ behavior for gauging carrying capacity and sustainable management. Location-based service (LBS) data, which passively record location data based on mobile device...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
11,332 Views
22 Pages

5 March 2024

Business logistics encompasses the intricate planning, seamless implementation, and precise control of the efficient and effective movement and storage of goods, services, and associated information from their origin to their final consumption point....

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,518 Views
37 Pages

9 January 2021

A guidance and information service for a University library based on Wi-Fi signals using fingerprinting as chosen localization method is under development at TU Wien. After a thorough survey of suitable location technologies for the application it wa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,156 Views
23 Pages

Service Area Network Analysis for Location Planning of Microbusiness and Local Franchise in Urban Area: A Case Study in Malang City, East Java Provence, Indonesia

  • Satti Wagistina,
  • Dyah Rina Syafitri,
  • Julaika Sri Lestari,
  • Khoirunnisa Hafidha Amanatinismi,
  • Dicky Setiawan and
  • Santica Ramadhani

Malang city is supported by the informal sector, represented by 50.41% informal employees; 17.80% are street food vendors located by collector, neighborhood, local, and alongside footpaths. Those highly potential business opportunities are equipped b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,409 Views
18 Pages

31 May 2023

Location-based services (LBS) are widely used due to the rapid development of mobile devices and location technology. Users usually provide precise location information to LBS to access the corresponding services. However, this convenience comes with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,627 Views
25 Pages

9 February 2024

Location privacy is an important parameter to be addressed in the case of vehicular ad hoc networks. Each vehicle frequently communicates with location-based services to find the nearest location of interest. The location messages communicated with t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,614 Views
17 Pages

Cache-Based Privacy Preserving Solution for Location and Content Protection in Location-Based Services

  • Yuanbo Cui,
  • Fei Gao,
  • Wenmin Li,
  • Yijie Shi,
  • Hua Zhang,
  • Qiaoyan Wen and
  • Emmanouil Panaousis

18 August 2020

Location-Based Services (LBSs) are playing an increasingly important role in people’s daily activities nowadays. While enjoying the convenience provided by LBSs, users may lose privacy since they report their personal information to the untrust...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
8,504 Views
21 Pages

Indoor Multi-Dimensional Location GML and Its Application for Ubiquitous Indoor Location Services

  • Qing Zhu,
  • Yun Li,
  • Qing Xiong,
  • Sisi Zlatanova,
  • Yulin Ding,
  • Yeting Zhang and
  • Yan Zhou

The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Geography Markup Language (GML) standard provides basic types and a framework for defining geo-informational data models such as CityGML and IndoorGML, which provide standard information models for 3D city modelli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
8,945 Views
29 Pages

End-User Attitudes towards Location-Based Services and Future Mobile Wireless Devices: The Students’ Perspective

  • Elena-Simona Lohan,
  • Alexandru Rusu-Casandra,
  • Oana Cramariuc,
  • Ion Marghescu and
  • Bogdan Cramariuc

18 July 2011

Nowadays, location-enabled mobile phones are becoming more and more widespread. Various players in the mobile business forecast that, in the future, a significant part of total wireless revenue will come from Location-Based Services (LBS). An LBS sys...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,117 Views
15 Pages

An Efficient Dummy-Based Location Privacy-Preserving Scheme for Internet of Things Services

  • Yongwen Du,
  • Gang Cai,
  • Xuejun Zhang,
  • Ting Liu and
  • Jinghua Jiang

5 September 2019

With the rapid development of GPS-equipped smart mobile devices and mobile computing, location-based services (LBS) are increasing in popularity in the Internet of Things (IoT). Although LBS provide enormous benefits to users, they inevitably introdu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,821 Views
14 Pages

2 February 2023

This study aimed to examine the impact of services development and technological innovation on the embedded location of the agricultural global value chain (GVC), and the interaction between the two in fifty-seven countries (regions) around the world...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,290 Views
28 Pages

An individual’s location data is very sensitive geoinformation. While its disclosure is necessary, e.g., to provide location-based services (LBS), it also facilitates deep insights into the lives of LBS users as well as various attacks on these...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,318 Views
15 Pages

22 April 2021

Machine learning (ML)-based methods are increasingly used in different fields of business to improve the quality and efficiency of services. The increasing amount of data and the development of artificial intelligence algorithms have improved the ser...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
42 Citations
12,812 Views
7 Pages

Location-based services (LBS) are a growing area of research. This editorial paper introduces the key research areas within the scientific field of LBS, which consist of positioning, modelling, communication, applications, evaluation, analysis of LBS...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,868 Views
21 Pages

17 October 2020

The recent decades have witnessed a significant increase in the population in peri-urban areas which led to a progressive transformation of peri-urban landscapes, and the reduced ability of agriculture to provide ecosystem services. In order to under...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
7,068 Views
9 Pages

The use of location-based services and mobile technologies is increasing in K-12 classrooms. In this article, we describe the history and the current use of these tools in the innovative Geospatial Semester project in Virginia. We share a number of e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,792 Views
22 Pages

8 February 2019

Location-based services present an inherent challenge of finding the delicate balance between efficiency when answering queries and maintaining user privacy. Inevitable security issues arise as the server needs to be informed of the query location to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,025 Views
25 Pages

A Security-Enhanced Query Result Verification Scheme for Outsourced Data in Location-Based Services

  • Guangcan Yang,
  • Jiayang Li,
  • Yunhua He,
  • Ke Xiao,
  • Yang Xin,
  • Hongliang Zhu and
  • Chen Li

13 August 2022

Location-based services (LBSs) facilitate people’s lives; location-based service providers (LBSPs) usually outsource services to third parties to provide better services. However, the third party is a dishonest entity that might return incorrec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,278 Views
14 Pages

12 March 2021

Recent years have seen the wide application of Location-Based Services (LBSs) in our daily life. Although users can enjoy many conveniences from the LBSs, they may lose their trajectory privacy when their location data are collected. Therefore, it is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
834 Views
18 Pages

Privacy-Friendly Business Models for Location-Based Mobile Services

  • Zhan Liu,
  • Riccardo Bonazzi,
  • Boris Fritscher and
  • Yves Pigneur

This paper presents a theoretical model to analyze the privacy issues involved in business models for location-based mobile services. We report the results of an exploratory field experiment in Switzerland that assessed the factors driving the net pa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,486 Views
20 Pages

An Empirical Recommendation Framework to Support Location-Based Services

  • Animesh Chandra Roy,
  • Mohammad Shamsul Arefin,
  • A. S. M. Kayes,
  • Mohammad Hammoudeh and
  • Khandakar Ahmed

17 September 2020

The rapid growth of Global Positioning System (GPS) and availability of real-time Geo-located data allow the mobile devices to provide information which leads towards the Location Based Services (LBS). The need for providing suggestions to personals...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,677 Views
21 Pages

31 October 2017

Given the importance tourism has in many economies, this research was designed to study how the social and environmental benefits of Location Based Services (LBS) in the tourism sector influence user behavior and thus contribute to sustainable develo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
8,746 Views
24 Pages

Mobile Phone Middleware Architecture for Energy and Context Awareness in Location-Based Services

  • Hiram Galeana-Zapién,
  • César Torres-Huitzil and
  • Javier Rubio-Loyola

10 December 2014

The disruptive innovation of smartphone technology has enabled the development of mobile sensing applications leveraged on specialized sensors embedded in the device. These novel mobile phone applications rely on advanced sensor information processes...

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