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Spatio-Temporal Databases

Flexible Querying and Reasoning

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Editors:
  1. Rita Caluwe

    1. Dept. of Telecommunications and Information Processing, Computer Science Laboratory, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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  2. Guy Tré

    1. Dept. of Telecommunications and Information Processing, Computer Science Laboratory, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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  3. Gloria Bordogna

    1. CNR IDPA — Institute for Environmental Process Dynamics, Italian National Research Council, Dalmine (BG), Italy

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VIII
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  2. Basic Notions and Rationale of the Handling of Imperfect Information in Spatio-Temporal Databases

    1. Basic Notions and Rationale of the Handling of Imperfect Information in Spatio-Temporal Databases

      • Rita de Caluwe, Guy de Tré, Gloria Bordogna
      Pages 1-8

  3. Theory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Fuzzy Sets for Representing the Spatial and Temporal Dimensions in GIS Databases

      • Suzana Dragićević
      Pages 11-27

    3. Toward Spatio-Temporal Patterns

      • Martin Erwig
      Pages 29-53

    4. Toward Extensible Spatio-Temporal Databases: An Approach Based on User-Defined Aggregates

      • Cindy X. Chen, Haixun Wang, Carlo Zaniolo
      Pages 55-74

    5. A Declarative Framework for Reasoning on Spatio-Temporal Data

      • Mirco Nanni, Alessandra Raffaetà, Chiara Renso, Franco Turini
      Pages 75-104

    6. Representing and Querying Imperfect Spatio-Temporal Information in an Object-based Framework

      • Gloria Bordogna, Sergio Chiesa
      Pages 105-125

    7. The Applicability of Generalized Constraints in Spatio-Temporal Database Modelling and Querying

      • Guy de Tré, Rita de Caluwe, Jörg Verstraete, Axel Hallez
      Pages 127-158

    8. An Error Tolerant Parser for Natural Language Queries in GISs

      • Fangju Wang
      Pages 159-179

    9. An MPEG-7 Based Video Database Management System

      • Adnan Yazici, Öznur Yavuz, Roy George
      Pages 181-210

    10. Modeling Spatial Objects Affected by Uncertainty

      • Eliseo Clementini
      Pages 211-236

    11. Fuzzy Minimum Bounding Rectangles

      • María J. Somodevilla, Fred E. Petry
      Pages 237-263

    12. Fuzzy Spatial Data Types and Predicates: Their Definition and Integration into Query Languages

      • Markus Schneider
      Pages 265-293

  4. Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 295-295
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    2. A Possibility-Based Model to Index Remote Sensing Images

      • Paola Carrara, Gabriella Pasi, Monica Pepe, Anna Rampini
      Pages 297-313

    3. Vague Geographical Knowledge Management — A Flow-Chart Based Application to Spatial Information Analysis

      • Josef Benedikt, Sebastian Reinberg, Leopold Riedl
      Pages 315-329

    4. Fuzzy Classifications in Large Geographical Databases: Assessing Vagueness in Less-Connected Nodes of the World City Network

      • Ben Derudder, Frank Witlox
      Pages 331-350

    5. Image-Based Change Detection of Geographic Information Using Spatial Constraints

      • Sidharta Gautama, Johan D’Haeyer, Wilfried Philips
      Pages 351-367

    6. Noise Annoyance Mapping

      • Tom De Muer, Andy Verkeyn, Dick Botteldooren
      Pages 369-392
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Spatio-Temporal Databases explores recent trends in flexible querying and reasoning about time- and space-related information in databases. It shows how flexible querying enhances standard querying expressiveness in many different ways, with the aim of facilitating extraction of relevant data and information. Flexible spatial and temporal reasoning denotes qualitative reasoning about dynamic changes in the spatial domain, characterized by imprecision or uncertainty (or both). Many of the contributions focus on GIS, while some others are more general, or focus on related application fields, presenting theoretical viewpoints and techniques that are inspiring or can be adapted for GIS. The first part bundles the contributions on advances at the theoretical level, also discussing examples and opening further perspectives. The second part presents contributions on well-developed applications. The authors explain how to handle imprecision and uncertainty, demonstrating how advanced techniques can help to solve diverse problems related to GIS.

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"The book begins with a theory section comprising 11 chapters … . Overall, Spatio-Temporal Databases is excellent as a cover-to-cover read … . New graduate students in geoinformatics (or others approaching the advanced concepts for the first time) should read this book front to back … . When they finish, they will be well-informed and ready to succeed … . This is an important book for all research groups … in any form; the authors and editors deserve thanks for producing such a good one." (Phil A. Graniero, Geomatica, Vol. 59 (2), 2005)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept. of Telecommunications and Information Processing, Computer Science Laboratory, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

    Rita Caluwe, Guy Tré

  • CNR IDPA — Institute for Environmental Process Dynamics, Italian National Research Council, Dalmine (BG), Italy

    Gloria Bordogna

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