Foundations of Multidimensional and Metric Data Structures

The field of multidimensional architecture is large and growing very quickly. Here, for the first time, is a thorough treatment of multidimensional data, object and image-based representations, intervals and small rectangles, and high-dimensional datasets.

The book includes a thorough introduction; a comprehensive survey to spatial and multidimensional data structures and algorithms; and implementation details for the most useful data structures. Along with the numbers of worked and figures of illustrations, in the area of GIFI, image programming, databases, geographic information systems (GIS), game programming, image processing, pattern recognition, solid modeling, similarity retrieval, and VLSI design.

Award Winner in 2006 "Best Book" competition in Professional and Scholarly Publishing from the Association of American Publishers.

Morgan Kaufmann would like to congratulate Hanan Samet on receiving the UCGIS 2009 Research Award!

Read the announcement here: http://www.ucgis.org/summer2009/researchaward.htm

* First comprehensive work on multidimensional data structures, and thorough and authoritative treatment.
* An algorithmic rather than a mathematical approach, with the possibility of seeing the possible implementation and use.
* Each section includes a discussion and suggest future directions.
* Written by a well-known authority in the area of spatial data.

The author's website includes: Spatial Index Demos

Multidimensional data is more than one dimension, by time, or spatially, or both, sometimes dynamically. Think here of tracking hurricane in order to the storm's path, for just one example. As a geïsdisk, équipment, équipment, équipment, équipment, équipment, équipment, équipment, équipment, économique paramount. This book is truly the life of the person.