Product Description: From environmental management to land planning and geo-marketing, the number of application domains that may greatly benefit from using data enriched with spatio-temporal features is expanding very rapidly. This book shows that a conceptual design approach for spatio-temporal databases is both feasible and easy to apprehend...read more

A data warehouse stores large volumes of historical data required for analytical purposes. This title explains contemporary data warehouse design. It addresses two innovative domains introduced to extend the capabilities of data warehouse systems: the management of spatial and temporal information.

Product Description: The LNCS Journal on Data Semantics is devoted to the presentation of notable work that, in one way or another, addresses research and development on issues related to data semantics. The scope of the journal ranges from theories supporting the formal definition of semantic content to innovative domain-specific applications of semantic knowledge...read more

Product Description: This book collects lectures presented at the First European Business Intelligence Summer School (eBISS), on topics including data structure and query processing, semantic databases, social network analysis, cloud computing and collaborative decision making.

Product Description: Mobility of people and goods is essential in the global economy. The ability to track the routes and patterns associated with this mobility offers unprecedented opportunities for developing new, smarter applications in different domains...read more