Quadtrees as an Abstract Domain

  • Authors:
  • Jacob M. Howe;Andy King;Charles Lawrence-Jones

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Computing, City University London, UK;School of Computing, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK;School of Computing, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

  • Venue:
  • Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Quadtrees have proved popular in computer graphics and spatial databases as a way of representing regions in two dimensional space. This hierarchical data-structure is flexible enough to support non-convex and even disconnected regions, therefore it is natural to ask whether this data-structure can form the basis of an abstract domain. This paper explores this question and suggests that quadtrees offer a new approach to weakly relational domains whilst their hierarchical structure naturally lends itself to representation with boolean functions.