The Partitioned Based Spatial-Merge Join (PBSM) of Patel and DeWitt and the Size Separation Spatial Join (S3 J) of Koudas and Sevcik are considered to be among the most efficient ...
Current data repositories include a variety of data types, including audio, images and time series. State of the art techniques for indexing such data and doing query processing r...
Spatial joins are fundamental in spatial databases. Over the last decade, the primary focus of research has been on joins with the predicate “region intersection.” In modern da...
The spatial join operation is benchmarked using variants of well-known spatial data structures such as the R-tree, R-tree, R+-tree, and the PMR quadtree. The focus is on a spatia...
A local spatial context is an area currently under consideration in a spatial reasoning process. The boundary between this area and the surrounding space together with the spatial...