Spatial Databases 2005

Section I: Modelling and Systems

• Jose Ramon Rios Viqueira, Nikos A. Lorentzos, Nieves R. Brisaboa: Survey on Spatial Data Modelling Approaches. 1-22
• Alberto H. F. Laender, Karla A. V. Borges, Joyce C. P. Carvalho, Claudia Bauzer Medeiros, Altigran Soares da Silva, Clodoveu A. Davis: Integrating Web Data and Geographic Knowledge into Spatial Databases. 23-47

Section II: Indexing Techniques

• Hans-Peter Kriegel, Martin Pfeifle, Marco Pötke, Thomas Seidl, Jost Enderle: Object-Relational Spatial Indexing. 49-80
• Maude Manouvrier, Marta Rukoz, Geneviève Jomier: Quadtree-Based Image Representation and Retrieval. 81-106
• Michail Vlachos, Marios Hadjieleftheriou, Eamonn J. Keogh, Dimitrios Gunopulos: Indexing Multi-Dimensional Trajectories for Similarity Queries. 107-128

Section III: Query Processing and Optimization

• Antonio Corral, Michael Vassilakopoulos: Approximate Computation of Distance-Based Queries. 130-154
• Nikos Mamoulis, Yannis Theodoridis, Dimitris Papadias: Spatial Joins: Algorithms, Cost Models and Optimization Techniques. 155-184

Section IV: Moving Objects

• Ouri Wolfson, Eduardo Mena: Applications of Moving Objects Databases. 186-203
• Katerina Raptopoulou, Apostolos N. Papadopoulos, Yannis Manolopoulos: Simple and Incremental Nearest-Neighbor Search for Spatiotemporal Databases. 204-224
• Talel Abdessalem, Cédric du Mouza, José Moreira, Philippe Rigaux: Management of Large Moving Objects Datasets: Indexing, Benchmarking and Uncertainty in Movement Representation. 225-249

Section V: Data Mining

• Margaret H. Dunham, Nathaniel Ayewah, Zhigang Li, Kathryn Bean, Jie Huang: Spatiotemporal Prediction using Data Mining Tools. 251-271
• Junmei Wang, Wynne Hsu, Mong-Li Lee: Mining in Spatiotemporal Databases. 272-293
• Giorgos Mountrakis, Peggy Agouris, Anthony Stefanidis: Similarity Learning in GIS: An Overview of Definitions, Prerequisites and Challenges. 294-321