Building a constraint-based spatial database system: Model, languages, and implementation

Information Systems

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 563-595

  Rigaux, Philippe ^a   Scholl, Michel ^b,c   Segoufin, Luc ^c   Grumbach, Stéphane ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b Bioinformatique et Chimie Moléculaire   (France)

^c INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC INDEXING; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DATA HANDLING; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DATA STRUCTURES; OPTIMIZATION; QUERY LANGUAGES;

DATABASE INDEXING; LOGICAL MODEL; SPATIAL DATABASE SYSTEMS;

RELATIONAL DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0038149069     PISSN: 03064379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4379(02)00041-8     Document Type: Article

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