Current models for cardinal directions, such as north and northeast, are either point-based or region-based, but no models exist that apply equally, independent of the geometric d...
Spatial relations are the basis for many selections users perform when they query geographic information systems (GISs). Although such query languages use natural-language-like te...
A. Rashid B. M. Shariff, Max J. Egenhofer, David M...
We show how model extensibility of object-oriented data management systems can be achieved through the combination of a highlevel core object data model and an architecture designe...
This paper describes a query algebra for queries over XML p2p databases that provides explicit mechanisms for modeling data dissemination, replication constraints, and for capturi...
Abstract. Topological relationships between spatial objects in the twodimensional space have been investigated for a long time in a number of disciplines like artificial intellige...