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SSD
1995
Springer
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Ranking in Spatial Databases
Abstract. An algorithm for ranking spatial objects according to increasing distance from a query object is introduced and analyzed. The algorithm makes use of a hierarchical spatia...
Gísli R. Hjaltason, Hanan Samet
SSD
1989
Springer
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Hierarchical Spatial Data Structures
An overview is presented of the use of hierarchical spatial data structures such as the quadtree. They are based on the principle of recursive decomposition. The focus is on the r...
Hanan Samet
COSIT
1997
Springer
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Using Hierarchical Spatial Data Structures for Hierarchical Spatial Reasoning
This paper gives a definition of Hierarchical Spatial Reasoning, which computes increasingly better results in a hierarchical fashion and stops the computation when a result is ac...
Sabine Timpf, Andrew U. Frank