1. Foreword

   • Hans-J. Schek

   EditorialNotes Pages: v - v

2. Preface to the special issue on spatial database systems

   • Ralf Hartmut Güting

   EditorialNotes Pages: vii - ix

3. An introduction to spatial database systems

   • Ralf Hartmut Güting

   OriginalPaper Pages: 357 - 399

4. Management of multidimensional discrete data

   • Peter Baumann

   OriginalPaper Pages: 401 - 444

5. A semantic modeling approach for image retrieval by content

   • Wesley W. Chu
   • Ion T. leong
   • Ricky K. Taira

   OriginalPaper Pages: 445 - 477

6. Qualitative representation of spatial knowledge in two-dimensional space

   • Dimitris Papadias
   • Timos Sellis

   OriginalPaper Pages: 479 - 516

7. The TV-tree: An index structure for high-dimensional data

   • King-Ip Lin
   • H. V. Jagadish
   • Christos Faloutsos

   OriginalPaper Pages: 517 - 542