Advances in Spatial and Temporal Databases 9th International Symposi

It is our great pleasure to introduce the papers of the proceedings of the 9th - ternational Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases – SSTD 2005. This year’s symposium continues the tradition of being the premier forum for the presentation of research

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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos New York University, NY, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University, Houston, TX, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

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Claudia Bauzer Medeiros Max Egenhofer Elisa Bertino (Eds.)

Advances in Spatial and Temporal Databases 9th International Symposium, SSTD 2005 Angra dos Reis, Brazil, August 22-24, 2005 Proceedings

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Volume Editors Claudia Bauzer Medeiros University of Campinas, Institute of Computing CP 6176, 13084-971 Campinas, Brazil E-mail: [email protected] Max Egenhofer University of Maine National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis 348 Boardman Hall, Orono, ME 04469-5711, USA E-mail: [email protected] Elisa Bertino Purdue University, Department of Computer Science West Lafayette, IN, USA E-mail: [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: 2005929997 CR Subject Classification (1998): H.2, H.3, H.4, I.2.4 ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13

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Preface

It is our great pleasure to introduce the papers of the proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases – SSTD 2005. This year’s symposium continues the tradition of being the premier forum for the presentation of research results and experience reports on leading edge issues of spatial and temporal database systems, including data models, systems, applications and theory. The mission of the symposium is to share innovative solutions that fu