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The introduction of spatio-temporal information in database systems presents us with an important data modelling challenge: the design of data models general and powerful enough to handle conventional thematic data, purely temporal or spatial concepts and spatio-temporal concepts.
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Grumbach, S., Koubarakis, M., Rigaux, P., Scholl, M., Skiadopoulos, S. (2003). Chapter 5: Spatio-temporal Models and Languages: An Approach Based on Constraints. In: Sellis, T.K., et al. Spatio-Temporal Databases. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2520. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45081-8_5
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