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BibliographyLange, Ralph; Weinschrott, Harald; Geiger, Lars; Blessing, Andre; Dürr, Frank; Rothermel, Kurt; Schütze, Hinrich: On a Generic Uncertainty Model for Position Information.
In: Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Quality of Context.
University of Stuttgart : Collaborative Research Center SFB 627 (Nexus: World Models for Mobile Context-Based Systems).
pp. 1-12, english.
Springer, June 2009.
Article in Proceedings (Workshop Paper).
CR-SchemaH.2.8 (Database Applications)
Keywordsdata uncertainty; position information; position accuracy; spatial queries
Abstract

Position information of moving as well as stationary objects is generally subject to uncertainties due to inherent measuring errors of positioning technologies, explicit tolerances of position update protocols, and approximations by interpolation algorithms. There exist a variety of approaches for specifying these uncertainties by mathematical uncertainty models such as tolerance regions or the Dilution of Precision (DOP) values of GPS. In this paper we propose a principled generic uncertainty model that integrates the different approaches and derive a comprehensive query interface for processing spatial queries on uncertain position information of different sources based on this model. Finally, we show how to implement our approach with prevalent existing uncertainty models.

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Contactralph.lange@ipvs.uni-stuttgart.de
Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute for Natural Language Processing
University of Stuttgart, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Distributed Systems
Project(s)SFB-627, E2 (University of Stuttgart, Institute for Natural Language Processing)
SFB-627, A2 (University of Stuttgart, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Distributed Systems)
SFB-627, B3 (University of Stuttgart, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Distributed Systems)
SFB-627, B5 (University of Stuttgart, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Distributed Systems)
Entry dateJune 12, 2009
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