The current trends in consumer electronics - including the use of GPS-equipped PDAs, phones, and vehicles, as well as the RFID-tag tracking and sensor networks - require the database support of a specific flavor of spatio-temporal databases. These we call 'Moving Objects Databases'. Why do you need [...]
Brings various elements of database design together. This book consolidates both introductory and advanced topics, thereby covering the gamut of database design methodology from ER and UML techniques, to conceptual data modeling and table transformation, to storing XML and querying moving objects da[...]