RESEARCH AREA: Spatial databases & GIS

The research activities on this topic include:

• Multi-layered spatial data modeling
• Spatial constraint databases
• Spatial index structures
• Access control models for spatial data

People

• Barbara Catania
• Paola Podestà

Projects

• National project Representation and Processing of Spatial Data in Geographic Information Systems (SPADA, 22/12/2000-21/12/2002)
• National project Rappresentazione e gestione di dati spaziali e geografici in ambiente Web (SPADA@WEB, 12/2003,12/2005)

Selected pubblications

• A. Belussi, B. Catania, P. Podestà. Towards topological consistency and similarity of multiresolution geographical maps. In Proc. of ACM GIS, pages 220-229, 2005.
• E. Bertino, B. Catania, M. L. Damiani, P. Perlasca. GEO-RBAC: a spatially aware RBAC. In Proc. of SACMAT, pages 29-37, 2005.
• A. Belussi, E. Bertino, B. Catania, M.L. Damiani, A. Nucita. An Authorization Model for Geographical Maps. In Proc. of the 12th Int. Symp ACM GIS, pages 82-91, November 2004.
• A. Belussi, B. Catania, E. Bertino. A Reference Framework for Integrating Layered Representations of Geographical Maps In Proc. of the 11th Int. Symp ACM GIS, pages 33-40, November 2003.
• A. Belussi, E. Bertino, and B. Catania. Using Spatial Data Access Structures for Filtering Nearest Neighbor Queries. Data & Knowledge Engineering, 40(1):1-31. North Holland, 2002.
• E. Bertino, B. Catania, and B. Shidlovsky. Towards Optimal Indexing for Segment Databases. In LNCS 1377: Proc. of the Sixth Int. Conf. on Extended Database Technology, pages 39-53, Valencia, Spain, March 1998.
• E. Bertino, E. Belussi, and B. Catania. Manipulating Spatial Data in Constraint Databases. In LNCS 1262: Proc. of the Fifth Int. Symp. on Spatial Databases, pages 115-140, Berlin, Germany, July 1997.