Spatio-Temporal Databases

by de Caluwe, Rita; de Tre, Guy; Bordogna, Gloria; Caluwe, Rita De; Tre, Guy

• ISBN13: 9783540222149
• ISBN10: 3540222146
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-10-16
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Basic Notions and Rationale of the Handling of Imperfect Information in Spatio-Temporal Databases
Rita de Caluwe, Guy de Tré, Gloria Bordogna	1	(10)
Part I THEORY
1 Fuzzy Sets for Representing the Spatial and Temporal Dimensions in GIS Databases
Suzana Dragicevic	11	(18)
2 Toward Spatio-Temporal Patterns
Martin Erwig	29	(26)
3 Toward Extensible Spatio-Temporal Databases: An Approach Based on User-Defined Aggregates
Cindy X. Chen, Haixun Wang, Carlo Zaniolo	55	(20)
4 A Declarative Framework for Reasoning on Spatio-Temporal Data
Mirco Nanni, Alessandra Raffaetà, Chiara Renso, Franco Turini	75	(30)
5 Representing and Querying Imperfect Spatio-Temporal Information in an Object-based Framework
Gloria Bordogna, Sergio Chiesa	105	(22)
6 The Applicability of Generalized Constraints in Spatio-Temporal Database Modelling and Querying
Guy de Tré, Rita de Caluwe, Jörg Verstraete, Axel Hallez	127	(32)
7 An Error Tolerant Parser for Natural Language Queries in GISs
Fangju Wang	159	(22)
8 An MPEG-7 Based Video Database Management System
Adnan Yazici, Oznur Yavuz, Roy George	181	(30)
9 Modeling Spatial Objects Affected by Uncertainty
Eliseo Clementini	211	(26)
10 Fuzzy Minimum Bounding Rectangles
Maria J. Sornodevilla, Fred E. Petry	237	(28)
11 Fuzzy Spatial Data Types and Predicates: Their Definition and Integration into Query Languages
Markus Schneider	265	(32)
Part II APPLICATIONS
12 A Possibility-Based Model to Index Remote Sensing Images
Paola Carrara, Gabriella Pasi, Monica Pepe, Anna Ramping	297	(18)
13 Vague Geographical Knowledge Management - A Flow-Chart Based Application to Spatial Information Analysis
Josef Benedikt, Sebastian Reinberg, Leopold Riedl	315	(16)
14 Fuzzy Classifications in Large Geographical Databases: Assessing Vagueness in Less-Connected Nodes of the World City Network
Ben Derudder, Frank Witlox	331	(20)
15 Image-Based Change Detection of Geographic Information Using Spatial Constraints
Sidharta Gautama, Johan D'Haeyer, Wilfried Philips	351	(18)
16 Noise Annoyance Mapping
Tom De Muer, Andy Verkeyn, Dick Botteldooren	369