A summary of research carried out in the CHOROCHRONOS Project, established as an EC-funded Training and Mobility Research Network with the objective of studying the design, implementation, and application of spatio-temporal database management systems. The nine coherent chapters by leading research groups are written in a tutorial style, making the research contributions of the project accessible to a wider audience interested in spatio-temporal information processing. Following an introductory overview, the book presents chapters on ontologies for spatio-temporal databases, conceptual models, spatio-temporal models and languages, access methods and query processing, architectures and implementation of spatio-temporal DBMS, interactive spatio-temporal documents, and future perspectives.

The Sixth International Symposium on Spatial Databases (SSD'99) was held in Hong Kong, China, July 20-23, 1999. This is a \ten-year anniversary" edition. The series of conferences started in Santa Barbara in 1989 and continued - annually in Zu ]rich(1991), Singapore (1993), Portland, Maine (1995), and Berlin (1997). We are very pleased that on this occasion Oliver Gun ] ther, one of the initiators of the conference in 1989, agreed to give an \anniversary talk" in which he presented his view of SSD in the past as well as in the future ten years. SSD is well established as the premier international conference devoted to the handling of spatial data in databases. The number of submissions has been stable during the last years; in 1999 there were 55 research submissions, which is exactly the same number as for the last conference in Berlin. Out of these, the programcommittee accepted17 excellent papers for presentation.In addition to the \anniversary talk," the technical program contained two keynote presen- tions (Christos Papadimitriou, Timos Sellis), four tutorials (Markus Schneider, Leila De Floriani and Enrico Puppo, Jayant Sharma, and Mike Freeston), and one panel. The papers included in these proceedings re?ect some of the current trends in spatial databases. Classical topics such as spatial indexing or spatial join continue to be studied, as well as interesting new directions such as including generalization/scale in indexing or treating multiway instead of binary joins."

This book brings all of the elements of database design together in a single volume, saving the reader the time and expense of making multiple purchases. It consolidates both introductory and advanced topics, thereby covering the gamut of database design methodology ? from ER and UML techniques, to conceptual data modeling and table transformation, to storing XML and querying moving objects databases.
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* Chapters contributed by various recognized experts in the field let the reader remain up to date and fully informed from multiple viewpoints.
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The current trends in consumer electronics--including the use of GPS-equipped PDAs, phones, and vehicles, as well as the RFID-tag tracking and sensor networks--require the database support of a specific flavor of spatio-temporal databases. These we call Moving Objects Databases.
Why do you need this book? With current systems, most data management professionals are not able to smoothly integrate spatio-temporal data from moving objects, making data from, say, the path of a hurricane very difficult to model, design, and query. Whether your field is geology, national security, urban planning, mobile computing, or almost anything in between, this book s concepts and techniques will help you solve the data management problems associated with this kind of data.
+ Focuses on the modeling and design of data from moving objects--such as people, animals, vehicles, hurricanes, forest fires, oil spills, armies, or other objects--as well as the storage, retrieval, and querying of that very voluminous data.
+ Demonstrates through many practical examples and illustrations how new concepts and techniques are used to integrate time and space in database applications.
+ Provides exercises and solutions in each chapter to enable the reader to explore recent research results in practice.

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Das Buch bietet eine kompakte Einfuhrung in die Grundlagen und Techniken des UEbersetzerbaus. UEbersetzer transformieren Texte einer Quellsprache, deren Struktur durch eine formale Grammatik beschrieben ist, in eine Zielsprache. Die UEbersetzung imperativer Programmiersprachen in Maschinensprache ist dabei nur ein Spezialfall. Dieses Lehrbuch betont die vielseitige Verwendbarkeit von UEbersetzerbau-Techniken. Insbesondere kann man mit Methoden der Syntaxanalyse Strukturen in Texten, Dateien oder Byte-Stroemen identifizieren. Ein weiterer Schwerpunkt liegt in der Verbindung von Theorie und Praxis und der Einubung der Benutzung von Werkzeugen wie Lex und Yacc. So wird u.a. die vollstandige Implementierung eines UEbersetzers einer einfachen Dokument-Beschreibungssprache nach LaTeX vorgefuhrt. Angemessen berucksichtigt wird auch die Implementierung imperativer und funktionaler Sprachen. Das didaktisch ansprechende Buch enthalt UEbungsaufgaben mit Loesungen und ist auch zum Selbststudium geeignet.