Design Patterns for Spatio-temporal Processes
Christophe Claramunt, Christine E. Parent, Marius Thériault · 1998
Time is an essential dimension to analyse and understand real-world evolution. Although many temporal extensions to spatial models have been proposed, there is still a need to define modelling methods to describe and represent real-world phenomena. This paper presents a set of design patterns modelling spatio-temporal processes expressed in an object-relationship data model. The proposed framework is based on an analysis of spatio-temporal processes and on properties of object-oriented and entity-relationship data models.