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Informationen zum Autor Ralf Hartmut Güting is Professor of computer science at the University of Hagen, Germany. After a one-year visit to the IBM Almaden Research Center in 1985, extensible and spatial database systems became his major research interests. He is the author of two German textbooks on data structures/algorithms and on compilers and has published about 50 articles on computational geometry and database systems. He is an associate editor of ACM Transactions on Database Systems. Markus Schneider is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department of the University of Florida and holds a doctoral degree in Computer Science from the University of Hagen, Germany. He is author of a monograph in the area of spatial databases and of a German textbook on implementation concepts for database systems, and has published about 40 articles on database systems. He is on the editorial board of GeoInformatica. Klappentext Just when the world thought we had enough data--proliferated via the Web--we now have the enormous amount of dynamic data that will be generated by GPS systems and RFID tags. Driven by trends in consumer electronics (the use of GPS-equipped devices such as PDAs, GPS in automobiles, and in mobile phones) as well as the trend in companies and retail stores to track their products (using RFID tags), this book focuses on data management techniques for the huge volumes of changing data these systems will generate. Zusammenfassung Focuses on the modeling and design of data from moving objects - such as people! animals! vehicles! hurricanes! forest fires! oil spills and armies - as well as the storage! retrieval! and querying of that very voluminous data. This work demonstrates how concepts and techniques are used to integrate time and space in database applications. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionSpatio-Temporal Databases in the PastModeling and Querying Current MovementModeling and Querying History of MovementData Structures and Algorithms for Moving Objects TypesThe Constraint Database ApproachSpatio-Temporal Indexing....
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction
Spatio-Temporal Databases in the Past
Modeling and Querying Current Movement
Modeling and Querying History of Movement
Data Structures and Algorithms for Moving Objects Types
The Constraint Database Approach
Spatio-Temporal Indexing.
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"This book represents a milestone in the synthesis of temporal and spatial database concepts and techniques. It unifies and organizes the existing research into a coherent whole and presents substantial new results and approaches in many areas. In each case it begins with what is known, then it introduces the new concepts in an abstract and general model, and then it translates the ideas into a pragmatic representation of data structures or SQL-like query language extensions. As such, the book makes both an excellent text and an excellent reference. It also takes you to the frontiers of our understanding, so it is a great point of departure for a new researcher who wants to advance this field."
--from the foreword by Jim Gray, Microsoft Research
