Back in the hazy olden days of the pre-2000s, navigating between two locations generally required someone to whip out a paper map and painstakingly figure out the most optimal route between those ...

If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.

With the rapid development of mobile networks, location-based services have become deeply embedded in people's daily lives. Although the k-NN search problem has obtained a lot of research results, the ...