Location-Based Services in a Smartphone

Developing a ChatBot to Answer Spatial Queries for use in Location-based Services

A Chat Bot is an automated operator that can interact with customers like a human operator, answer their questions, solve problems and get feedback. Real-time responsiveness, the sense of talking to a human user is one of their good features that can be used to deliver location-based services. This paper designed a Chat Bot that can talk and answer users' questions based on their location. Thi...

Semantics in Location-Based Services

Advances in wireless networks and mobile devices have motivated an intensive research effort in mobile computing and mobile data services. The goal is to provide users with anywhere and anytime connectivity to the Internet and access to services that are valuable according to the context of the user. One of the most interesting context factors is the location of the user. Thus, context-awarenes...

Location - Based Services

Over the past ten years location-based services (LBS) have been variously touted as the next generation of GIS; as the killer application that will bring the GIS industry to its next level of prosperity; and as a growing threat to human privacy. This chapter attempts to provide a basic introduction to LBS, and a discussion of some of the major issues surrounding them. It begins with basic defin...

Location-Based Services

Location-based services (LBS) evolved from mobile service. A mobile service is determined by the interaction of the user, the mobile device, and the mobile provider. Since the value for the users depends on the context (i.e. environmental factors surrounding them), mobile services can be assigned to different context-aware services which are characterized by integrating information about the us...

Location-based Services