Despite the ubiquity of temporal data and considerable research on the effective and
efficient processing of such data, database systems largely remain designed for processing …

From environmental management to land planning and geo-marketing, the number of
application domains that may greatly benefit from using data enriched with spatio-temporal …

Ontologies are becoming a core technology for supporting the sharing, integration, and
management of information sources in Semantic Web applications. As critical as ontologies …

The effective and efficient use of information systems in health care organizations and
services are a vital element of the quality of life world wide. The modeling of time has …

A wide range of database applications manage time-varying data. Many temporal query
languages have been proposed, each one the result of many carefully made yet subtly …

This paper describes research into the design, development and visualization of mixed 2D
and 3D Cadastre. A schema has been developed to accommodate this data, with provision …

Large-scale clinical databases provide a detailed perspective on patient phenotype in
disease and the characteristics of health care processes. Important information is often …

Many databases contain temporal, or time-referenced, data and use intervals to capture the
temporal aspect. While SQL-based database management systems (DBMSs) are capable of …

A digital cadastral data base (DCDB) is a big investment for a jurisdiction tasked with the
administration of land boundaries. In the past, the development of such a database …

The prime purpose of Cadastral data–whether in the form of maps, survey plans or notes, or
a digital database is the definitive demarcation of the extent of properties–and can be seen …