An important activity in the design of a particular database application consists in identifying the integrity constraints that must hold on the database, and that are used to det...
Karla A. V. Borges, Alberto H. F. Laender, Clodove...
: Spatial data types or algebras for database systems should (i) be fully general (which means, closed under set operations, hence e.g. a region value can be a set of polygons with...
Automatic generation of semantic metadata describing spatial relations is highly desirable for image digital libraries. Relative spatial relations between objects in an image conv...
Yuhang Wang, Fillia Makedon, James Ford, Li Shen, ...
Data warehouses and OLAP systems help to interactively analyze huge volume of data. This data, extracted from transactional databases, frequently contains spatial information whic...
Sandro Bimonte, Anne Tchounikine, Maryvonne Miquel
Information extraction and integration from heterogeneous, autonomous data resources are major requirements for many spatial applications. Geospatial analysis for scientific disco...