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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Basic Notions and Rationale of the Handling of Imperfect Information in Spatio-Temporal Databases
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Theory
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Front Matter
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Applications
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Front Matter
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About this book
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.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"The book begins with a theory section comprising 11 chapters … . Overall, Spatio-Temporal Databases is excellent as a cover-to-cover read … . New graduate students in geoinformatics (or others approaching the advanced concepts for the first time) should read this book front to back … . When they finish, they will be well-informed and ready to succeed … . This is an important book for all research groups … in any form; the authors and editors deserve thanks for producing such a good one." (Phil A. Graniero, Geomatica, Vol. 59 (2), 2005)
Editors and Affiliations
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Dept. of Telecommunications and Information Processing, Computer Science Laboratory, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Rita Caluwe, Guy Tré
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CNR IDPA — Institute for Environmental Process Dynamics, Italian National Research Council, Dalmine (BG), Italy
Gloria Bordogna
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Spatio-Temporal Databases
Book Subtitle: Flexible Querying and Reasoning
Editors: Rita Caluwe, Guy Tré, Gloria Bordogna
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-09968-1
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-22214-9Published: 12 August 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-06070-0Published: 07 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-09968-1Published: 17 April 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 392
Topics: Geographical Information Systems/Cartography, Earth Sciences, general, Database Management, Mathematical and Computational Engineering