Dynamic Topological Predicates and Notifications in Moving Databases

Written with Goce Trajcevski, Peter Scheuermann, and Agnès Voisard.
Abstract: In this paper we present two dynamic topological predicates: moving_along and moving_towards, and we address their efficient management for notification purposes in Moving Object Databases (MOD) settings. We present efficient algorithmic solutions and based on this we also take a deeper insight into the behavioral aspects of a MOD which manages such predicates. We argue that the traditional ECA (Event Condition Action) paradigm is not wekk-suited to ensure proper efficient reactive behavior and we introduce the (ECA)2 (Evolving and Context-Aware Event-Condition-Action) paradigm as a tool for specification of the behavior of a MOD which handles requests that span over a time interval in the dynamic environment.

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