A General Framework for Geo-Social Query Processing

Summary: First systematic GeoSN query framework, separating social, geographic, and query modules through composable primitives for independent management and deployment. Provides scalable algorithms for Range/Nearest Friends and the aggregate-distance Nearest Star Group query. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 10940
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2013
Pagerank: 6.3102414e-05
Overall Rank: 5,224 | 64.16%
DOI: 10.14778/2536206.2536218

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Authors

1. Nikos Armenatzoglou (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
2. Stavros Papadopoulos (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
3. Dimitris Papadias (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

BibTeX Citation

@article{armenatzoglou_vldb13,
        title = {{A General Framework for Geo-Social Query Processing}},
        author = {Armenatzoglou, Nikos and Papadopoulos, Stavros and Papadias, Dimitris},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '13},
        volume = {6},
        number = {10},
        pages = {913--924},
        doi = {10.14778/2536206.2536218},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2536206.2536218},
        year = {2013}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,378	Effective Community Search over Large Spatial Graphs	2017	VLDB	0.00010971508
4,651	Density-based Place Clustering in Geo-Social Networks	2014	SIGMOD	6.585234e-05
7,006	Topic-based Community Search over Spatial-Social Networks	2020	VLDB	5.726836e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
449	Query Processing in Spatial Network Databases	2003	VLDB	0.0001826404
2,205	Conceptual Partitioning: An Efficient Method for Continuous Nearest Neighbor Monitoring	2005	SIGMOD	8.9591376e-05
5,623	Efficient Proximity Detection among Mobile Users via Self-Tuning Policies	2010	VLDB	6.1453429e-05

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