Search operations in databases require special support at the physical level. This is true for
conventional databases as well as spatial databases, where typical search operations …

Recognizing materials in real-world images is a challenging task. Real-world materials have
rich surface texture, geometry, lighting conditions, and clutter, which combine to make the …

Spatial Databases is the first unified, in-depth treatment of special techniques for dealing
with spatial data, particularly in the field of geographic information systems (GIS). This book …

The domain of spatiotemporal applications is a treasure trove of new types of data and
queries. However, work in this area is guided by related research from the spatial and …

To illustrate the flexibility of the GIST, we provide simple method implementations that allow
it to behave like a B+-tree, an R-tree, and an RD-tree, a new index for data with set-valued …

Spatial relationships are core components in the design and definition of spatial queries. A
spatial relationship determines how two or more spatial objects are related or connected in …

Space support in databases poses new challenges in every part of a database management
system & the capability of spatial support in the physical layer is considered very important …

Multimedia applications usually involve a large number of multimedia objects (texts, images,
sounds, etc.). Spatial and temporal relationships among these objects should be efficiently …

Big Data has driven the need for datastores that can scale horizontally leading to the
development of many different NoSQL database implementations, each with different …

Although there are many advanced and specialized texts and handbooks on algorithms,
until now there was no book that focused exclusively on the wide variety of data structures …