GIS: A Computing Perspective, Second Edition, provides a full, up-to-date overview of GIS,
both Geographic Information Systems and the study of Geographic Information Science …

Spatial Databases is the first unified, in-depth treatment of special techniques for dealing
with spatial data, particularly in the field of geographic information systems (GIS). This book …

Space support in databases poses new challenges in every part of a database management
system & the capability of spatial support in the physical layer is considered very important …

This paper addresses the problem of finding the K closest pairs between two spatial data
sets, where each set is stored in a structure belonging in the R-tree family. Five different …

A central problem in computational geometry, range searching arises in many applications,
and a variety of geometric problems can be formulated as range-searching problems. A …

In current distributed systems, the notion of mobility is emerging in many forms and
applications. Mobility arises naturally in wireless computing since the location of users …

In a number of emerging streaming applications, the data values that are produced have an
associated time interval for which they are valid. A useful computation over such streaming …

Spatiotemporal databases are becoming increasingly more common. Typically, applications
modeling spatiotemporal objects need to process vast amounts of data. In such cases …

Recent advances in digital video compression and networks have made video more
accessible than ever. However, the existing content-based video retrieval systems still suffer …

Modern database applications show a growing demand for efficient and dynamic
management of intervals, particularly for temporal and spatial data or for constraint handling …