This volume is dedicated to the memory of Professor Ashley
Morris who passed away some two years ago. Ashley was a close
friend of all of us, the editors of this volume, and was also a
Ph.D. student of one of us. We all had a chance to not only fully
appreciate, and be inspired by his contributions, which have had a
considerable impact on the entire research community. Due to our
personal relations with Ashley, we also had an opportunity to get
familiar with his deep thinking about the areas of his expertise
and interests. Ashley has been involved since the very beginning of
his professional career in database research and practice. Notably,
he introduced first some novel solution in database management
systems that could handle imprecise and uncertain data, and
flexible queries based on imprecisely specified user interests. He
proposed to use for that purpose fuzzy logic as an effective and
efficient tool. Later the interests of Ashley moved to ways of how
to represent and manipulate more complicated databases involving
spatial or temporal objects. In this research he discovered and
pursued the power of Geographic Information Systems (GISs).
These two main lines of Ashley 's research interests and
contributions are reflected in the composition of this volume.
Basically, we collected some significant papers by well known
researchers and scholars on the above mentioned topics. The
particular contributions will now be briefly summarized to help the
reader get a view of the topics covered and the contents of the
particular contributions.
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