Advances in Spatial Databases

Spatial internet marketplaces: A grand challenge?.- 3D Similarity search by shape approximation.- Finding boundary shape matching relationships in spatial data.- Spatial data mining: A database approach.- A general and efficient implementation of geometric operators and predicates.- Materialization trade-offs in hierarchical shortest path algorithms.- Manipulating spatial data in constraint databases.- Constraint-based interoperability of spatiotemporal databases.- Improving spatial intersect joins using Symbolic Intersect Detection.- Data partitioning for parallel spatial join processing.- Orthogonal polygons as bounding structures in filter-refine query processing strategies.- From geoStore to GeoToolKit: The second step.- Geo-Opera: Workflow concepts for spatial processes.- Physical database design for raster images in concert.- Topological error correcting in GIS.- Vague regions.- On the assessment of generalisation consistency.- New linear node splitting algorithm for R-trees.- The S-tree: An efficient index for multidimensional objects.- Perspectives in GIS database architecture.