The continuous development of wireless networks and mobile devices has motivated an
intense research in mobile data services. Some of these services provide the user with …

摘要随着无线通信技术和智能移动终端的快速发展, 基于位置的服务(Location
basedServices, LBS) 在军事, 交通, 物流等诸多领域得到了广泛应用, 它能够根据移动对象的 …

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 …

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 …

Among the various types of spatio-temporal queries, the most common ones involve window
queries in time. In particular, timestamp (or timeslice) queries retrieve all the objects that …

With the rapid increase in the use of inexpensive, location-aware sensors in a variety of new
applications, large amounts of time-sequenced location data will soon be accumulated …

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 …

The rapid increase in spatio-temporal applications calls for new auxiliary indexing
structures. A typical spatio-temporal application is one that tracks the behavior of moving …

The development of a spatiotemporal access method suitable for objects moving on fixed
networks is a very attractive challenge due to the great number of real-world spatiotemporal …