: Nowadays, the database characteristics, such as the huge volume of data, the complexity of the queries, and even the data availability, can demand minutes or hours to process a q...
Leonardo Guerreiro Azevedo, Rodrigo Salvador Monte...
Efficient evaluation of spatial queries is an important issue in spatial database. Among spatial operations, spatial join is very useful, intersection being the most common predic...
Processing spatial joins efficiently is crucial to rendering the spatial data analysis process feasible. As pointed out in many works, the exact intersection test of two spatial ob...
Rodrigo Salvador Monteiro, Leonardo Guerreiro Azev...
With recent advances in temporal and spatiotemporal databases, user demands are becoming more complex. As a result, simple queries are replaced by complex multitemporal query scen...
Giorgos Mountrakis, Peggy Agouris, Anthony Stefani...
If you were told that some object A was perfectly (or somewhat, or not at all) in some direction (e.g., west, above-right) of some reference object B, where in space would you loo...