From the reviews of the first edition: "This monograph explores the way spatial database management systems aim at supporting queries that involve the space characteristics of the underlying data, and discusses query processing techniques for nearest neighbor queries. It provides both basic concepts and state-of-the-art results in spatial databases and parallel processing research ... . It is an excellent reference for researchers, postgraduate students and practitioners in computer science concerned with nearest neighbor search and related issues." (Marie Duzi, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1076, 2006)

• Fundamental Issues.- Spatial Database Concepts.- The R-Tree and Variations.- Nearest Neighbor Search in Spatial and Spatiotemporal Databases.- Nearest Neighbor Queries.- Analysis of Nearest Neighbor Queries.- Nearest Neighbor Queries in Moving Objects.- Nearest Neighbor Search with Multiple Resources.- Parallel and Distributed Databases.- Multidisk Query Processing.- Multiprocessor Query Processing.- Distributed Query Processing.

From the reviews of the first edition: "This monograph explores the way spatial database management systems aim at supporting queries that involve the space characteristics of the underlying data, and discusses query processing techniques for nearest neighbor queries. It provides both basic concepts and state-of-the-art results in spatial databases and parallel processing research ... . It is an excellent reference for researchers, postgraduate students and practitioners in computer science concerned with nearest neighbor search and related issues." (Marie Duzi, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1076, 2006)

• Fundamental Issues.- Spatial Database Concepts.- The R-Tree and Variations.- Nearest Neighbor Search in Spatial and Spatiotemporal Databases.- Nearest Neighbor Queries.- Analysis of Nearest Neighbor Queries.- Nearest Neighbor Queries in Moving Objects.- Nearest Neighbor Search with Multiple Resources.- Parallel and Distributed Databases.- Multidisk Query Processing.- Multiprocessor Query Processing.- Distributed Query Processing.

From the reviews of the first edition: "This monograph explores the way spatial database management systems aim at supporting queries that involve the space characteristics of the underlying data, and discusses query processing techniques for nearest neighbor queries. It provides both basic concepts and state-of-the-art results in spatial databases and parallel processing research ... . It is an excellent reference for researchers, postgraduate students and practitioners in computer science concerned with nearest neighbor search and related issues." (Marie Duzi, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1076, 2006)

• Fundamental Issues.- Spatial Database Concepts.- The R-Tree and Variations.- Nearest Neighbor Search in Spatial and Spatiotemporal Databases.- Nearest Neighbor Queries.- Analysis of Nearest Neighbor Queries.- Nearest Neighbor Queries in Moving Objects.- Nearest Neighbor Search with Multiple Resources.- Parallel and Distributed Databases.- Multidisk Query Processing.- Multiprocessor Query Processing.- Distributed Query Processing.