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Localizing the Internet: Implications of and Challenges in Geo-locating Everything Digital

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The Internet allows for near-total anonymity in online discussions and transactions; leading to challenges such as identity theft, spear phishing, cyber-bullying and lack of user-retailer trust for small online retailers. In an effort to restore prosperity, security and trust to our increasingly digitally interconnected society, it is important to tie some sense of the physical world in with the cyber world, e.g., creating a geo-coded Internet. However, geo-coding the vast amount of content currently on the web, along with providing reliable geo-location authentication services against the difficulties of spatial analysis and the inherent probabilistic estimate of current location-identification technology.

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  1. Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Michael R. Evans & Chintan Patel

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  1. Institute for the Management of Information Systems, Research Center “ATHENA”, G.Mpakou 17, 11524, Athens, Greece

    Dieter Pfoser

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Sha Tin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR, China

    Yufei Tao

  3. School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University, 80 Stamford Road, 178902, Singapore

    Kyriakos Mouratidis

  4. Department of Computing Science, ATH University of Alberta, T6G 2E8, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

    Mario A. Nascimento

  5. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, 4-192, 200 Union St. SE, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Mohamed Mokbel  & Shashi Shekhar  & 

  6. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of North Texas, 3040 North Elm, Denton, TX, USA

    Yan Huang

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Evans, M.R., Patel, C. (2011). Localizing the Internet: Implications of and Challenges in Geo-locating Everything Digital. In: Pfoser, D., et al. Advances in Spatial and Temporal Databases. SSTD 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6849. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22922-0_31

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