Advances in Spatial and Temporal Databases

Modeling and Querying.- Moving Objects: Logical Relationships and Queries.- A Spatiotemporal Model and Language for Moving Objects on Road Networks.- Similarity of Cardinal Directions.- Moving-Object Query Processing.- Querying Mobile Objects in Spatio-Temporal Databases.- K-Nearest Neighbor Search for Moving Query Point.- Semantic Caching in Location-Dependent Query Processing.- Query Processing--Architectures and Cost Estimation.- A Model-Based, Open Architecture for Mobile, Spatially Aware Applications.- Continuous Queries within an Architecture for Querying XML-Represented Moving Objects.- Selectivity Estimation of Complex Spatial Queries.- Wavelet-Based Cost Estimation for Spatial Queries.- Processing Advanced Queries.- Evaluation of Buffer Queries in Spatial Databases.- On Multi-Way Spatial Joins with Direction Predicates.- Discovering Spatial Co-location Patterns: A Summary of Results.- Constrained Nearest Neighbor Queries.- Formal Aspects.- Calendars, Time Granularities, and Automata.- Composing Cardinal Direction Relations.- Data Representation.- Creating Representations for Continuously Moving Regions from Observations.- Compressing Multiresolution Triangle Meshes.- Design and Implementation of Multi-scale Databases.- Industrial Session.- The Architecture of ArcIMS, a Distributed Internet Map Server.- Efficient Processing of Large Spatial Queries Using Interior Approximations.- Data Warehousing and Mining.- Efficient Mining of Spatiotemporal Patterns.- Efficient OLAP Operations in Spatial Data Warehouses.- Pre-aggregation in Spatial Data Warehouses.- Indexing.- Interval Sequences: An Object-Relational Approach to Manage Spatial Data.- Query Processing in Broadcasted Spatial Index Trees.- Object-Relational Indexing for General Interval Relationships.