GeoInformatica, Volume 1

Volume 1, Number 1, April 1997

Patrick Bergougnoux: Bridging the Gap between Computer Science and Geography. 5-9
Eliseo Clementini, Paolino Di Felice: A Global Framework for Qualitative Shape Description. 11-27
Juliano Lopes de Oliveira, Fatima Pires, Claudia Bauzer Medeiros: An Environment for Modeling and Design of Geographic Applications. 29-58
Walid G. Aref, Hanan Samet: Efficient Window Block Retrieval in Quadtree-Based Spatial Databases. 59-91
Yee Leung, Jianping Yan: Point-in-Polygon Analysis Under Certainty and Uncertainty. 93-114

Yun-Wu Huang, Ning Jing, Elke A. Rundensteiner: A Hierarchical Path View Model for Path Finding in Intelligent Transportation Systems. 125-159
François Lecordix, Corinne Plazanet, Jean Philippe Lagrange: A Platform for Research in Generalization: Application to Caricature. 161-182
David B. Kidner, Philip J. Rallings, J. Andrew Ware: Parallel Processing for Terrain Analysis in GIS: Visibility as a Case Study. 183-207

Leila De Floriani, Paola Magillo: Visibility Computations on Hierarchical Triangulated Terrain Models. 219-250
Dimitris Papadias, Max J. Egenhofer: Algorithms for Hierarchical Spatial Reasoning. 251-273
Anthony G. Cohn, Brandon Bennett, John Gooday, Nicholas Mark Gotts: Qualitative Spatial Representation and Reasoning with the Region Connection Calculus. 275-316

Sophie Cockcroft: A Taxonomy of Spatial Data Integrity Constraints. 327-343
Lutz Plümer, Gerhard Gröger: Achieving Integrity in Geographic Information Systems Maps and Nested Maps. 345-367
Apostolos Papadopoulos, Yannis Manolopoulos: Nearest Neighbor Queries in Shared-Nothing Environments. 369-392