5. SSD 1997: Berlin, Germany

• Frontmatter.
  

Keynote Speech

• David J. Abel:
  Spatial Internet Marketplaces: A Grand Challenge? 3-8
  

Spatial Similarities

• Hans-Peter Kriegel, Thomas Schmidt, Thomas Seidl:
  3D Similarity Search by Shape Approximation. 11-28
  
• Edwin M. Knorr, Raymond T. Ng, David L. Shilvock:
  Finding Boundary Shape Matching Relationships in Spatial Data. 29-46
  
• Martin Ester, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Jörg Sander:
  Spatial Data Mining: A Database Approach. 47-66
  

Geo-Algorithms

• Edward P. F. Chan, Jimmy N. H. Ng:
  A General and Efficient Implementation of Geometric Operators and Predicates. 69-93
  
• Shashi Shekhar, Andrew Fetterer, Bjajesh Goyal:
  Materialization Trade-Offs in Hierarchical Shortest Path Algorithms. 94-111
  

Spatial Constraint Databases

• Alberto Belussi, Elisa Bertino, Barbara Catania:
  Manipulating Spatial Data in Constraint Databases. 115-141
  
• Jan Chomicki, Peter Z. Revesz:
  Constraint-Based Interoperability of Spatiotemporal Databases. 142-161
  

Spatial Query Processing

• Yun-Wu Huang, Matthew C. Jones, Elke A. Rundensteiner:
  Improving Spatial Intersect Joins Using Symbolic Intersect Detection. 165-177
  
• Xiaofang Zhou, David J. Abel, David Truffet:
  Data Partitioning for Parallel Spatial Join Processing. 178-196
  
• Claudio Esperança, Hanan Samet:
  Orthogonal Polygons as Bounding Structures in Filter-Refine Query Processing Strategies. 197-220
  

Systems

• Oleg T. Balovnev, Martin Breunig, Armin B. Cremers:
  From GeoStore to GeoToolKit: The Second Step. 223-237
  
• Gustavo Alonso, Claus Hagen:
  Geo-Opera: Workflow Concepts for Spatial Processes. 238-258
  
• Lukas Relly, Hans-Jörg Schek, Olof Henricsson, Stephan Nebiker:
  Physical Database Design for Raster Images in CONCERT. 259-279
  

Spatial Data Models

• Thierry Ubeda, Max J. Egenhofer:
  Topological Error Correcting in GIS. 283-297
  
• Martin Erwig, Markus Schneider:
  Vague Regions. 298-320
  
• Vasilis Delis, Thanasis Hadzilacos:
  On the Assessment of Generalisation Consistency. 321-335
  

Spatial Access Methods

• Chuan-Heng Ang, T. C. Tan:
  New Linear Node Splitting Algorithm for R-trees. 339-349
  
• Charu C. Aggarwal, Joel L. Wolf, Philip S. Yu, Marina Epelman:
  The S-Tree: An Efficient Index for Multidimensional Objects. 350-373
  

Keynote Speech

• Dick Newell:
  Perspectives in GIS Database Architecture (Abstract). 377