Advances in Spatial and Temporal Databases

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Spatial and Temporal Databases, SSTD 2001. The book offers topical sections on modelling and querying; moving-object query processing; processing advanced queries; and data warehousing and mining. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Spatial and Temporal Databases, SSTD 2001, held in Redondo Beach, CA, USA, in July 2001. The 25 revised full papers and two industrial papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 70 submissions. The book offers topical sections on modeling and querying, moving-object query processing, query processing: architectures and cost estimation, processing advanced queries, formal aspects, data representation, industrial session, data warehousing and mining, and indexing.