Foundations of Multidimensional and Metric Data Structures

by Hanan Samet

The field of multidimensional data structures is large and growing very quickly. Here, for the first time, is a thorough treatment of multidimensional point data, object and image-based representations, intervals and small rectangles, and high-dimensional datasets. The book includes a thorough introduction; a comprehensive survey to spatial and multidimensional data structures and algorithms; and implementation details for the most useful data structures. Along with the hundreds of worked exercises and hundreds of illustrations, the result is an excellent and valuable reference tool for professionals in many areas, including computer graphics, databases, geographic information systems (GIS), game programming, image processing, pattern recognition, solid modeling, similarity retrieval, and VLSI design. Award Winner in 2006 ""Best Book"" competition in Professional and Scholarly Publishing from the Association of American Publishers.Morgan Kaufmann would like to congratulate Hanan Samet on receiving the UCGIS 2009 Research Award!Read the announcement //www.ucgis.org/summer2009/researchawar... * First comprehensive work on multidimensional data structures available, a thorough and authoritative treatment. * An algorithmic rather than mathematical approach, with a liberal use of examples that allows the readers to easily see the possible implementation and use. * Each section includes a large number of exercises and solutions to self-test and confirm the reader's understanding and suggest future directions. * Written by a well-known authority in the area of spatial data structures who has made many significant contributions to the field. The author's website Spatial Index Demos

Genres: Algorithms, Technical, Computation, Technology, Programming

1024 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Nick Black · Rating 5 out of 5]

truly a glorious book
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wow, this is a 300-pound black mamba she-bitch pisscutter for sure. no two-day read right here!
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found in a reference on Z-curves, which are pretty much the hotness

[Daniel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mix of breadth and depth of topics; some topics are way too deep (and I've skipped a bunch), others not covered at all - maybe because this space is moving so quickly. Overall very good.

[Oleksandr Nikitin · Rating 5 out of 5]

a rather comprehensive handbook. with examples and explanations. there should be more books like this.