Query operations for moving objects database systems

  • Authors:
  • José Moreira;Cristina Ribeiro;Talel Abdessalem

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science, Department, Universidade Portucalense, Portugal;Department of Electrical, Engineering and Computing, FEUP, Portugal;Computer Science Department, ENST de Paris, France

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 8th ACM international symposium on Advances in geographic information systems
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Geographical Information Systems were originally intended to deal with snapshots representing a single state of some reality but there are more and more applications requiring the representation and querying of time-varying information. This work addresses the representation of moving objects on GIS.The continuous nature of movement raises problems for representation in information systems due to the limited capacity of storage systems and the inherently discrete nature of measurement instruments. The stored information has therefore to be partial and does not allow an exact inference of the real-world object's behavior. To cope with this, query operations must take uncertainty into consideration in their semantics in order to give accurate answers to the users.The paper proposes a set of operations to be included in a GIS or a spatial database to make it able to answer queries on the spatio-temporal behavior of moving objects. The operations have been selected according to the requirements of real applications and their semantics with respect to uncertainty is specified. A collection of examples from a case study is included to illustrate the expressiveness of the proposed operations.