Spatio-Temporal Databases: The CHOROCHRONOS Approach

✍ Scribed by Manolis Koubarakis, Timos Sellis (auth.), Timos K. Sellis, Manolis Koubarakis, Andrew Frank, Stéphane Grumbach, Ralf Hartmut Güting, Christian Jensen, Nikos A. Lorentzos, Yannis Manolopoulos, Enrico Nardelli, Barbara Pernici, Babis Theodoulidis, Nectaria Tryfona, Hans-Jörg Schek, Michel O. Scholl (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 361
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2520
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book summarizes in a timely and representative manner research carried out in the CHOROCHRONOS Project, established as an EC funded Training and Mobility Research Network with the objective of studying the design, implementation, and application of spatio-temporal database management systems.

The nine coherent chapters by leading research groups are written in a tutorial style, making the research contributions of the project accessible to a wider audience interested in spatio-temporal information processing. Follwing an introductory overview, the book presents chapters on ontologies for spatio-temporal databases, conceptual models, spatio-temporal models and languages, access methods and query processing, architectures and implementation of spatiotemporal DBMS, interactive spatio-temporal documents, and future perspectives.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
Chapter 1: Introduction....Pages 1-8
Chapter 2: Ontology for Spatio-temporal Databases....Pages 9-77
Chapter 3: Conceptual Models for Spatio-temporal Applications....Pages 79-116
Chapter 4: Spatio-temporal Models and Languages: An Approach Based on Data Types....Pages 117-176
Chapter 5: Spatio-temporal Models and Languages: An Approach Based on Constraints....Pages 177-201
Chapter 6: Access Methods and Query Processing Techniques....Pages 203-261
Chapter 7: Architectures and Implementations of Spatio-temporal Database Management Systems....Pages 263-318
Chapter 8: Advanced Uses: Composing Interactive Spatio-temporal Documents....Pages 319-344
Chapter 9: Spatio-temporal Databases in the Years Ahead....Pages 345-347
Back Matter....Pages -

✦ Subjects

Database Management; Information Storage and Retrieval; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Geographical Information Systems/Cartography; Business Information Systems