Object-Oriented Distributed Database Design and Spatial Data Modeling

摘要

Work for this grant enabled the advancement of the state of research for areas of fuzzy spatial data modeling, uncertainty and conflation. Specific published work supported by this grant included a range of topics, including: fuzzy spatial relationship refinements, spatial query interfaces, uncertainty in distributed spatial information systems, spatial relationship querying, distributed spatial object-based systems, spatial indexing, distributed conflation model and issues, and an integrated image change detection/conflation algorithm. Special journal issues co-edited by the grant recipient on 'Spatial Data Management,' 'Uncertainty in Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Data' and 'Distributed Object-Oriented Systems' resulted in newly published works from some of the foremost researchers in the area, including Michael Goodchild, Peter Fisher, Hans Guesgen, Douglas Schmidt and others.