Spatio-Temporal Databases The CHOROCHRONOS Approach

A summary of research carried out in the CHOROCHRONOS Project, established as an EC-funded Training and Mobility Research Network with the objective of studying the design, implementation, and application of spatio-temporal database management systems.

The nine coherent chapters by leading research groups are written in a tutorial style, making the research contributions of the project accessible to a wider audience interested in spatio-temporal information processing. Following an introductory overview, the book presents chapters on ontologies for spatio-temporal databases, conceptual models, spatio-temporal models and languages, access methods and query processing, architectures and implementation of spatio-temporal DBMS, interactive spatio-temporal documents, and future perspectives.

1: Introduction.- 2: Ontology for Spatio-temporal Databases.- 3: Conceptual Models for Spatio-temporal Applications.- 4: Spatio-temporal Models and Languages: An Approach Based on Data Types.- 5: Spatio-temporal Models and Languages: An Approach Based on Constraints.- 6: Access Methods and Query Processing Techniques.- 7: Architectures and Implementations of Spatio-temporal Database Management Systems.- 8: Advanced Uses: Composing Interactive Spatio-temporal Documents.- 9: Spatio-temporal Databases in the Years Ahead.