R-Trees: Theory and Applications

• Main Authors: Manolopoulos, Yannis (Author), Nanopoulos, Alexandros (Author), Papadopoulos, Apostolos N. (Author), Theodoridis, Yannis (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2006.
• Series: Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Data structures (Computer science).; File organization (Computer science).; Database management.; Information storage and retrieval.; Computer Science.; Database Management.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory.; Data Storage Representation.; Data Structures.; Files.

Nowadays, a significant number of applications require the organization of data elements which contain at least one spatial attribute. Space support in databases poses new challenges in every part of a database management system and the capability of spatial support in the physical layer is consider...

Table of Contents:

• Fundamental Concepts
• Dynamic Versions of R-trees
• Static Versions of R-trees
• Query Processing Issues
• Fundamental Query Processing Techniques
• Processing More Complex Queries
• R-Trees In Modern Applications
• R-trees in Spatiotemporal Databases
• R-trees for Multimedia, Warehousing and Mining
• Advanced Issues
• Query Optimization Issues
• Implementation Issues.