Geographic Database Management Systems -

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Résumé :
Geographical Information Systems are becoming increasingly important to geologists, geographers, and urban and environmental planners, amongst others. Although there is an increasing number of such systems available on the market, many questions of a theoretical nature need to be addressed, because of the inherently large amounts of data and the lack of appropriate models and languages. Also, there is a need for flexible and efficient usage of GIS, thus permitting their application in a broad range of new areas, such as navigation systems for transport and the automotive industry. ESPRIT Working Groups provide a structure that enables researchers to meet, interact and share research results, thus providing a platform for ad? dressing fertile research areas with significant industrial promise. This par? ticular volume is the result of a workshop organised by the Basic GOODS Working Group. The challenge has been to define richer and more powerful data definition and manipulation languages, and also to develop new and efficient algorithms. The challenge has been met, as presented in this volume, and the Working Group has succeeded in laying a good foundation for future research and eventual applications. We look forward to seeing the results of the recently launched AMUSING project, which will build on this foundation.

Sommaire:
Geographic Information Management - The ESPRIT Basic Goods Action.- Beyond Query Languages for Geographic Databases: Data Cubes and Maps.- Implementation of a User Environment for a Spatial DBMS.- Extending a Spatial Database System by Graphs and Object Class Hierarchies.- A Model for Complex Data: Completeness and Soundness Properties.- Object-Based Data Model and Deductive Language for Spatio-Temporal Database Applications.- Object-Oriented Database Systems for Geographic Applications: an Experiment with O2.- Loading Spatial Features into the Incomplete Pyramid Data Structure.- Global Order Makes Spatial Access Faster.- Evaluation of Spatial Access Methods with Oversize Shelves.- An Efficient Map Overlay Algorithm Based on Spatial Access Methods and Computational Geometry.- How to Split Buckets in Spatial Data Structures.- A Guaranteed Approximation Algorithm for On-line Computing Quadtree Border.- Parallel Processing of a Class of Geographical Queries.- An Access Method Based Query Processor for Spatial Database Systems.- A Multi-layered Approach to Query Processing in Geographic Information Systems.