After more than 20 years of research and practice in software configuration management
(SCM), constructing consistent configurations of versioned software products still remains a …

The entity-relationship (ER) model, using varying notations and with some semantic
variations, is enjoying a remarkable and increasing popularity in both the research …

GIS: A Computing Perspective, Second Edition, provides a full, up-to-date overview of GIS,
both Geographic Information Systems and the study of Geographic Information Science …

GIS data and tools are revolutionizing transportation research and decision making,
allowing transportation analysts and professionals to understand and solve complex …

A temporal database contains time-varying data. In a real-time database transactions have
deadlines or timing constraints. In this paper we review the substantial research in these two …

Many applications of spatial information systems require not just spatial data handling but a
unified approach to space and time. This paper begins by motivating this requirement with …

Urban development and migration from rural to urban areas are impacting prime agricultural
land and natural landscapes, particularly in the less developed countries. These …

Time integration within GIS requires a comprehensive analysis of spatiotemporal
phenomena. This paper presents a conceptual model of time and space suitable for …

Spatio-temporal databases aim to support extensions to existing models of Spatial
Information Systems (SIS) to include time in order to better describe our dynamic …

Consistency constraints placed on a database to assure, that values incorporated in the
database are consistent, are a well known foundation of Geographical Information Systems …