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Temporal Objects for Spatio-Temporal Data Models and a Comparison of Their Representations

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We present anew approach to temporal data modeling based on the very general notion of temporal object. Moreover, we propose the database embedding of temporal objects by means of the abstract data type (ADT) approach. We consider the expressiveness of different temporal database embeddings, and we discuss the combination of temporal and spatial objects into spatio-temporal objects in (relational) databases. We explain various alternatives for spatio-temporal data models and databases and compare their expressiveness.

This research was partially supported by the CHOROCHRONOS project, funded by the EU under the Training and Mobility of Researchers Progranune, Contract No. ERB FMRX-CT96-0056.

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  1. Praktische Informatik IV, FernUniversität Hagen, D-58084, Hagen, Germany

    Martin Erwig, Markus Schneider & Ralf Hartmut Güting

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  1. Graduate School of Informatics, Dept. of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, 606-8501, Yoshida Sakyo Kyoto, Japan

    Yahiko Kambayashi

  2. Dept. of Computer Science Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China

    Dik Lun Lee

  3. School of Applied Science, Nanyang Technological University, N4-2A-12, Nanyang Avenue, 639798, Singapore

    Ee-Peng Lim

  4. School of Computer and Information Science The Levels Campus, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, 5095, S.A., Australia

    Mukesh Kumar Mohania

  5. Faculty of Science, Dept. of Information Sciences, Ochanomizu University, 2-1-1 Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku, 112-8610, Tokyo, Japan

    Yoshifumi Masunaga

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Erwig, M., Schneider, M., Güting, R.H. (1999). Temporal Objects for Spatio-Temporal Data Models and a Comparison of Their Representations. In: Kambayashi, Y., Lee, D.L., Lim, EP., Mohania, M.K., Masunaga, Y. (eds) Advances in Database Technologies. ER 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1552. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-49121-7_40

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