6. SSD 1999: Hong Kong, China

• Frontmatter.
  

Invited Talks

• Christos H. Papadimitriou:
  Topological Queries. 3-4
  
• Timos K. Sellis:
  Research Issues in Spatio-temporal Database Systems. 5-11
  
• Oliver Günther:
  Looking Both Ways: SSD 1999 ±10. 12-15
  

Multi-resolution and Scale

• John G. Stell, Michael F. Worboys:
  Generalizing Graphs Using Amalgamation and Selection. 19-32
  
• Leila De Floriani, Paola Magillo, Enrico Puppo:
  Data Structures for Simplicial Multi-complexes. 33-51
  
• Mike Hörhammer, Michael Freeston:
  Spatial Indexing with a Scale Dimension. 52-71
  

Indexing

• Christian Böhm, Gerald Klump, Hans-Peter Kriegel:
  XZ-Ordering: A Space-Filling Curve for Objects with Spatial Extension. 75-90
  
• Rupesh Choubey, Li Chen, Elke A. Rundensteiner:
  GBI: A Generalized R-Tree Bulk-Insertion Strategy. 91-108
  

Moving Objects and Spatio-temporal Data

• Dieter Pfoser, Christian S. Jensen:
  Capturing the Uncertainty of Moving-Object Representations. 111-132
  
• Eddie C. Shek, Giovanni Giuffrida, Suhas Joshi, Son Dao:
  Dynamic Spatial Clustering for Intelligent Mobile Information Sharing and Dissemination. 132-146
  
• Yannis Theodoridis, Jefferson R. O. Silva, Mario A. Nascimento:
  On the Generation of Spatiotemporal Datasets. 147-164
  

Spatial Data Mining and Classification

• Xiaofang Zhou, David Truffet, Jiawei Han:
  Efficient Polygon Amalgamation Methods for Spatial OLAP and Spatial Data Mining. 167-187
  
• Xuemin Lin, Xiaomei Zhou, Chengfei Liu:
  Efficiently Matching Proximity Relationships in Spatial Databases. 188-206
  
• Mihael Ankerst, Gabi Kastenmüller, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Thomas Seidl:
  3D Shape Histograms for Similarity Search and Classification in Spatial Databases. 207-226
  

Spatial Join

• Ho-Hyun Park, Guang-Ho Cha, Chin-Wan Chung:
  Multi-way Spatial Joins Using R-Trees: Methodology and Performance Evaluation. 229-250
  
• Antonio Corral, Michael Vassilakopoulos, Yannis Manolopoulos:
  Algorithms for Joining R-Trees and Linear Region Quadtrees. 251-269
  
• Ludger Becker, André Giesen, Klaus Hinrichs, Jan Vahrenhold:
  Algorithms for Performing Polygonal Map Overlay and Spatial Join on Massive Data Sets. 270-285
  
• Apostolos Papadopoulos, Philippe Rigaux, Michel Scholl:
  A Performance Evaluation of Spatial Join Processing Strategies. 286-307
  

Uncertainty and Geologic Hypermaps

• Agnès Voisard:
  Abduction and Deduction in Geologic Hypermaps. 311-329
  
• Markus Schneider:
  Uncertainty Management for Spatial Data in Databases: Fuzzy Spatial Data Types. 330-351
  

Industrial and Visionary Applications Track

• Siva Ravada, Jayant Sharma:
  Oracle8i Spatial: Experiences with Extensible Databases. 355-359
  
• Maurizio Talamo, Franco Arcieri, Giancarlo Conia, Enrico Nardelli:
  SICC: An Exchange System for Cadastral Information. 360-364
  
• Thomas Brinkhoff:
  Requirements of Traffic Telematics to Spatial Databases. 365-369