Advances in Spatial and Temporal Databases: 8th International Symposium, SSTD 2003, Santorini Island, Greece, July 2003. Proceedings

Front Matter....Pages -
Data Modeling for Mobile Services in the Real World....Pages 1-9
Performance Evaluation of Main-Memory R-tree Variants....Pages 10-27
The BTR-Tree: Path-Defined Version-Range Splitting in a Branched and Temporal Structure....Pages 28-45
Bkd-Tree: A Dynamic Scalable kd-Tree....Pages 46-65
Efficient Object-Relational Interval Management and Beyond....Pages 66-82
Efficient k-NN Search on Streaming Data Series....Pages 83-101
On Query Processing and Optimality Using Spectral Locality-Preserving Mappings....Pages 102-121
Categorical Range Queries in Large Databases....Pages 122-139
Probabilistic Spatial Database Operations....Pages 140-158
Validity Information Retrieval for Spatio-Temporal Queries: Theoretical Performance Bounds....Pages 159-178
Exploiting the Multi-Append-Only-Trend Property of Historical Data in Data Warehouses....Pages 179-198
Cross-Outlier Detection....Pages 199-213
Accessing Scientific Data: Simpler is Better....Pages 214-232
Optimization of Spatial Joins on Mobile Devices....Pages 233-251
On Spatial-Range Closest-Pair Query....Pages 252-269
Evaluation of Iceberg Distance Joins....Pages 270-288
Indexing Objects Moving on Fixed Networks....Pages 289-305
On-Line Discovery of Dense Areas in Spatio-temporal Databases....Pages 306-324
Accuracy and Resource Consumption in Tracking and Location Prediction....Pages 325-343
Region-Based Query Languages for Spatial Databases in the Topological Data Model....Pages 344-361
Query Pre-processing of Topological Constraints: Comparing a Composition-Based with Neighborhood-Based Approach....Pages 362-379
Logical Data Expiration for Fixpoint Extensions of Temporal Logics....Pages 380-393
A Multi-representation Spatial Data Model....Pages 394-411
Learning Similarity with Fuzzy Functions of Adaptable Complexity....Pages 412-429
Spatial Similarity Queries with Logical Operators....Pages 430-448
Exploiting Spatial Autocorrelation to Efficiently Process Correlation-Based Similarity Queries....Pages 449-468
Automatically Annotating and Integrating Spatial Datasets....Pages 469-488
Location- and Time-Based Information Delivery in Tourism....Pages 489-507
Building a Robust Relational Implementation of Topology....Pages 508-524
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