Topological invariants for lines

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 38-54

  Clementini, Eliseo ^b   Di Felice, Paolino ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Homeomorphism; Lines; Spatial data modeling; Spatial relations; Topological invariants

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; DATA STRUCTURES; EQUIVALENCE CLASSES; INVARIANCE; POLYNOMIALS; TOPOLOGY;

HOMEOMORPHISM; POLYNOMIAL TIME ALGORITHMS; SPATIAL DATABASE SYSTEMS; TOPOLOGICAL INVARIANTS; TWO DIMENSIONAL EUCLIDEAN SPACE;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031673743     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/69.667085     Document Type: Article

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