Advances in Spatial Databases

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Spatial Databases, SSD'99, held in Hong Kong, China in July 1999.The 17 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from 55 submissions. Also included are short papers corresponding to three invited talks and industrial applications presentations. The papers are organized in chapters on multi-resolution and scale, indexing, moving objects and spatio-temporal data, spatial mining and classification, spatial join, uncertainty and geological hypermaps, and industrial and visionary application track.

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Invited Talks.- Topological Queries.- Research Issues in Spatio-temporal Database Systems.- Looking Both Ways: SSD 1999 ± 10.- Multi-resolution and Scale.- Generalizing Graphs Using Amalgamation and Selection.- Data Structures for Simplicial Multi-complexes.- Spatial Indexing with a Scale Dimension.- Indexing.- XZ-Ordering: A Space-Filling Curve for Objects with Spatial Extension.- GBI: A Generalized R-Tree Bulk-Insertion Strategy.- Moving Objects and Spatio-temporal Data.- Capturing the Uncertainty of Moving-Object Representations.- Dynamic Spatial Clustering for Intelligent Mobile Information Sharing and Dissemination.- On the Generation of Spatiotemporal Datasets.- Spatial Data Mining and Classification.- Efficient Polygon Amalgamation Methods for Spatial OLAP and Spatial Data Mining.- Efficiently Matching Proximity Relationships in Spatial Databases.- 3D Shape Histograms for Similarity Search and Classification in Spatial Databases.- Spatial Join.- Multi-way Spatial Joins Using R-Trees: Methodology and Performance Evaluation.- Algorithms for Joining R-Trees and Linear Region Quadtrees.- Algorithms for Performing Polygonal Map Overlay and Spatial Join on Massive Data Sets.- A Performance Evaluation of Spatial Join Processing Strategies.- Uncertainty and Geologic Hypermaps.- Abduction and Deduction in Geologic Hypermaps.- Uncertainty Management for Spatial Datain Databases: Fuzzy Spatial Data Types.- Industrial and Visionary Applications Track.- Oracle8i Spatial: Experiences with Extensible Databases.- SICC: An Exchange System for Cadastral Information.- Requirements of Traffic Telematics to Spatial Databases.