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Computing the Topological Relationship of Complex Regions

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Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2004)

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Topological predicates between spatial objects have always been a main area of research on spatial data handling, reasoning, and query languages. The focus of research has definitely been on the design of and reasoning with these predicates, whereas implementation issues have been largely neglected. Besides, design efforts have been restricted to simplified abstractions of spatial objects like single points, continuous lines, and simple regions. In this paper, we present a general algorithm which is based on the well known plane-sweep paradigm and determines the topological relationship between two given complex regions.

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  1. Department of Computer and Information Science and Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA

    Markus Schneider

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  1. University of Zaragoza, Ciudad Universitaria, Plaza San Francisco, 50009, Zaragoza

    Fernando Galindo

  2. Seikei University, Japan

    Makoto Takizawa

  3. Institute of Informatics in Business and Government, University of Linz, Altenbergerstr. 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Roland Traunmüller

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Schneider, M. (2004). Computing the Topological Relationship of Complex Regions. In: Galindo, F., Takizawa, M., Traunmüller, R. (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications. DEXA 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3180. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30075-5_81

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