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Chapter 1: Introduction

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Spatio-Temporal Databases

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Time and space are ubiquitous aspects of reality. It is hard to imagine a day in our life going by without making use of temporal and spatial information. In today’s digital world, there is hardly any information system where time, space or both need not be present as first-class concepts in order to effectively support the targeted application. The reader is invited to consider the information systems of such varied organizations as financial institutions, public administrations, factories, hospitals, environmental agencies, entertainment industries, the military, space agencies, schools or universities, to name a few.

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  1. Technical University of Crete, Greece

    Manolis Koubarakis

  2. National Technical University of Athens, Greece

    Timos Sellis

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  1. Institute for the Management of Information Systems (R.C. “Athena”), Athens, Hellas

    Timos K. Sellis

  2. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

    Manolis Koubarakis

  3. Dept. of Geoinformation Technical University of Vienna A-1040, Vienna, Austria

    Andrew Frank

  4. INRIA-LIAMA Institute of Automation, Beijing, China

    Stéphane Grumbach

  5. LG Datenbanksysteme für neue Anwendungen, FB Informatik, Fernuniversität Hagen, D-58084, Hagen, Germany

    Ralf Hartmut Güting

  6. Informatics and Mathematical Modelling, Technical University of Denmark, 2800, Lyngby, Denmark

    Christian Jensen

  7. Informatics Laboratory, Agricultural University of Athens, Iera Odos 75, GR 11855, Athens, Greece

    Nikos A. Lorentzos

  8. Data Engineering Research Lab. Department of Informatics, Aristotle University, 54124, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Yannis Manolopoulos

  9. NESTOR – Multimedia services security and certification Laboratory, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy

    Enrico Nardelli

  10. Politecnico di Milano, Italy

    Barbara Pernici

  11. Institute of Science and Technology, University of Manchester, United Kingdom

    Babis Theodoulidis

  12. Research Academic Computer Technology Institute, Akteou 11, 11851, Athens, Greece

    Nectaria Tryfona

  13. Professor Emeritus of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland

    Hans-Jörg Schek

  14. Cedric, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, 75141, Paris Cedex 03, France

    Michel O. Scholl

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Koubarakis, M., Sellis, T. (2003). Chapter 1: Introduction. In: Sellis, T.K., et al. Spatio-Temporal Databases. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2520. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45081-8_1

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