Topological Relationship Operators on 4D Moving Object Databases

  • Jun, Sung-Woo (Database Laboratory of Computer Science Department, Chungbuk National University) ;
  • Kim, Sang-Ho (Database Laboratory of Computer Science Department, Chungbuk National University) ;
  • Park, Jin-Soo (Chongju University) ;
  • Ryu, Keun-Ho (Database Laboratory of Computer Science Department, Chungbuk National University)
  • Published : 2003.11.03

Abstract

In this paper we propose four-dimensional (4D) operators, which can be used to deal with sequential changes of topological relationships between 4D moving objects and we call them 4D development operators. In contrast to the existing operators, we can apply the operators to real applications on 4D moving objects. We also propose a new approach to define them. The approach is based on a dimension-separated method, which considers x-y coordinates and z coordinates separately. In order to show the applicability of our operators we show the algorithms for the proposed operators and development graph between 4D moving objects.

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