Modeling and querying fuzzy spatiotemporal databases

Information Sciences

Volumn 178, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 3665-3682

  Sözer, Aziz ^a   Yazici, Adnan ^a   Oǧuztüzün, Halit ^a   Taş, Osman ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Fuzzy logic; Knowledgebase; Meteorological database application; Object oriented database; Spatiotemporal data

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER VISION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; FUZZY LOGIC; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

CASE STUDIES; COMPLEX OBJECTS; DATABASE APPLICATIONS; ELSEVIER (CO); ENVIRONMENTAL DATA MANAGEMENT; FUZZY SPATIOTEMPORAL (FST); GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION; INTELLIGENT DATABASES; KNOWLEDGE BASE (KB); NEW APPROACHES; OBJECT ORIENTED (OO); SPATIAL OBJECTS; SPATIAL RELATIONS (SR); SPATIO-TEMPORAL DATA;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 47849099587     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2008.05.034     Document Type: Article

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