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The Computer Journal 1998 41(3):185-200; doi:10.1093/comjnl/41.3.185
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A Quadtree-Based Dynamic Attribute Indexing Method

J. Tayeb1, Ö. Ulusoy1 and O. Wolfson2

1 Department of Computer Engineering and Information Science, Bilkent University, Bilkent, Ankara 06533, Turkey, 2 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois 60680, USA

Dynamic attributes are attributes that change continuously over time making it impractical to issue explicit updates for every change. In this paper, we adapt a variant of the quadtree structure to solve the problem of indexing dynamic attributes. The approach is based on the key idea of using a linear function of time for each dynamic attribute that allows us to predict its value in the future. We contribute an algorithm for regenerating the quadtree-based index periodically that minimizes CPU and disk access cost. We also provide an experimental study of performance focusing on query processing and index update overheads.

Received July 20, 1997. revised March 11, 1998.


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