• Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.37-50
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• 2003

In the paper, we describe the query extension techniques for spatiotemporal query functionalities on object-relational DBMS. The spatial objects in real world change the shapes over time. Spatiotemporal databases support to manage a temporal dimension as well as a spatial dimension for history of the objects. The proposed techniques can make conventional object-relational databases to support spatiotemporal databases system by the implementation and inheritance of abstract data types. We define and implement spatial and temporal classes as superclass. And, spatiotemporal classes inherits and extends the classes. The proposed extensions make it easy that conventional database systems not only are transformed into the spatiotemporal database systems, but also do not need to be changed to support spatiotemporal applications.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.726-729
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• 2004

Spatiotemporal phenomena are ubiquitous aspects of real world. In the spatial and temporal databases, integrity constraints maintain the semantics of specific application domain and relationship between domains when proceed update in the database. Efficient maintenance of data integrity has become a critical problem, since testing the validity of a large number of constraints in a large database and after each transaction is an expensive task. Especially, in spatiotemporal domain, data is more complex than traditional domains and very active. Additionally, it is not considered that unified frameworks deal with both spatial and temporal properties to handle integrity constraints. Therefore, there need a model to maintain integrity constraints in the unified frameworks and enforcement and management techniques in order to preserve consistence.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.26 no.10
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• pp.1167-1167
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• 1999

Although spatial databases support an efficient spatial management on objects in the real world, they have a characteristic that process only spatial information valid at current time, So in case of change in the spatial domain, it is very hard to support an efficient historical management for time-varying spatial information because they delete an old value and then replace with new value that is valid at current time. To solve these problems, there are rapidly increasing of interest for spatiotemporal databases, which serve historical functions for spatial information as well as spatial management functions for an object. However most of them presented in an abstract time-varying spatial phenomenon, but have not presented a concrete policy in spatiotemporal databases. In this paper, we propose a spatiotemporal data model that supports bitemporal time concepts in three dimensional architecture. In the proposed model, not only data types and their operation for object of spatiotemporal databases have been classified, but also mathematical expressions using formal semantics for them have been given. Then, the data structures and their operations based on relational database model as well as object-oriented database model are presented.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.43-55
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• 2005

Spatiotemporal databases support methods of recording and querying for spatiotemporal data to user by offering both spatial management and historical information on various types of objects in the real world. We can answer to the following query in real world: 'What is the average of volume of pesticide sprayed for cach farm land from April to August on 2001, within some query window' Such aggregation queries have both temporal and spatial constraint. However, previous works for aggregation are attached only to temporal aggregation or spatial aggregation. So they have problems that are difficult to apply for spatiotemporal data directly which have both spatial and temporal constraint. Therefore, in this paper, we propose spatiotemporal aggregate functions for analysis of spatiotemporal data which have spatiotemporal characteristic, such as stCOUNT, stSUM, stAVG, stMAX, stMIN. We also show that our proposal resulted in the convenience and improvement of query in application systems, and facility of analysis on spatiotemporal data which the previous temporal or spatial aggregate functions are not able to analyze, by applying to the estate management system. Then, we show the validity of our algorithm performance through the evaluation of spatiotemporal aggregate functions.

• 한국공간정보시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.61-66
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• 2005

Spatiotemporal data mining represents the confluence of several fields including spatiotemporal databases, machine loaming, statistics, geographic visualization, and information theory. Exploration of spatial data mining and temporal data mining has received much attention independently in knowledge discovery in databases and data mining research community. In this paper, we introduce an algorithm Max_MOP for discovering moving sequences in mobile environment. Max_MOP mines only maximal frequent moving patterns. We exploit the characteristic of the problem domain, which is the spatiotemporal proximity between activities, to partition the spatiotemporal space. The task of finding moving sequences is to consider all temporally ordered combination of associations, which requires an intensive computation. However, exploiting the spatiotemporal proximity characteristic makes this task more cornputationally feasible. Our proposed technique is applicable to location-based services such as traffic service, tourist service, and location-aware advertising service.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.5 no.10
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• pp.2467-2478
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• 1998

The spatiotemporal databases support historical informations as well as spatial managements for the objects in the real world, and can be efficiently used to various applications such as geographic information system, urban plan system, car navigation system. Although there are so far several pioneering works in spatioemporal data modeling, it is little to study on spatiotemporal query language. So in this paper, we at first survey a modeling technique that makes spatiotemporal objects into databases, and then show some sighificant functions supported by query language. Also we suggest a new spatiotemporal database query language, entitled as STQL, which make users to enable to manage efficient historical information as well as spatial management function on the basis of relational query language, SQL. Also the proposed STQL, shows their operationsl in spatiotemporal daabases.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.9D no.1
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• pp.43-56
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• 2002

Most of works have been performed on representation of spatiotemporal objects from various points of view. Most of them represent spatiotemporal objects using approaches from GIS, temporal databases, object-oriented databases or data type. Spatiotemporal objects can be classified as objects whose position and shape changes discretely over time, objects whose position changes continuously and objects whose shape changes continuously as well as position. Previous works on spatiotemporal model have focused on only one of them. In this paper, we propose a spatiotemporal model that can represent three types of objects in Euclidean plan. For this purpose, we represent both discrete and continuous moving objects by defining temporal model extended from valid time and by defining relationship between two consecutive versions of objects. The proposed spatiotemporal object model is based on open GIS specification so that it has compatibility with existing spatial data model.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.137-147
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• 2006

Spatiotemporal data are records of the spatial changes of moving objects over time. Most data in corporate databases have a spatiotemporal nature, but they are typically treated as merely descriptive semantic data without considering their potential visual (or cartographic) representation. Businesses such as geographical CRM, location-based services, and technologies like GPS and RFID depend on the storage and analysis of spatiotemporal data. Effectively handling the data analysis process may be accomplished through spatiotemporal data warehouse and spatial OLAP. This paper proposes a multidimensional model for spatiotemporal data analysis, and cartographically represents the results of the analysis.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.635-652
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• 2011

In ubiquitous environments, many applications need to process data with time and space dimensions. Because of this, there is growing attention not only on gathering spatiotemporal data in ubiquitous environments, but also on processing such data in databases. In order to obtain the full benefits from spatiotemporal data, we need a data model that naturally expresses the properties of spatiotemporal data. In this paper, we introduce three spatiotemporal data models extended from temporal data models. The main goal of this paper is to determine which data model is less complex in the spatiotemporal context. To this end, we compare their query languages in the complexity aspect because the complexity of a query language is tightly coupled with its underlying data model. Throughout our investigations, we show that it is important to intertwine space and time dimensions and keep one-to-one correspondence between an object in the real world and a tuple in a database in order to naturally express queries in ubiquitous applications.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.205-218
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• 2004

As the development of database technology for managing spatiotemporal data, new types of spatiotemporal application services that need the spatiotemporal knowledge discovery from the large volume of spatiotemporal data are emerging. In this paper, a new 3-layered discovery framework for the development of spatiotemporal knowledge discovery techniques is proposed. The framework supports the foundation model in order not only to define spatiotemporal knowledge discovery problem but also to represent the definition of spatiotemporal knowledge and their relationships. Also the components of spatiotemporal knowledge discovery system and its implementation model are proposed. The discovery framework proposed in this paper satisfies the requirement of the development of new types of spatiotemporal knowledge discovery techniques. The proposed framework can support the representation model of each element and relationships between objects of the spatiotemporal data set, information and knowledge. Hence in designing of the new types of knowledge discovery such as spatiotemporal moving pattern, the proposed framework can not only formalize but also simplify the discovery problems.