Towards a Theory of Spatial Database Queries (Extended Abstract)
Summary: Presents a general spatial-database model extending relational tuples with geometric figures, gives an equivalent calculus and algebra, and adapts Chandra–Harel consistency to spatial queries under different geometric interpretations. Analyzes consistency/decidability for calculus queries, studies expressiveness, and outlines a foundational research agenda with many open problems. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Jan Paredaens (University of Antwerp)
- 2. Jan Van den Bussche (University of Antwerp)
- 3. Dirk Van Gucht (Indiana University)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{paredaens_pods94,
address = {New York, NY, USA},
series = {{PODS} '94},
title = {{Towards a Theory of Spatial Database Queries (Extended Abstract)}},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/182591.182640},
doi = {10.1145/182591.182640},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
author = {Paredaens, Jan and Van den Bussche, Jan and Van Gucht, Dirk},
year = {1994}
}
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 421 | The Format Model: A Theory of Database Organization (extended abstract) | 1982 | PODS | 0.00018742219 |
| 2,241 | Finitely Representable Databases | 1994 | PODS | 8.8845324e-05 |
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