(data structure)
Definition: A point access method which splits multidimensional space in different dimensions at each level. It also keeps a minimum bounding box of points accessible by each node.
Note: After [GG98].
Author: PEB
Bernhard Seeger and Hans-Peter Kriegel, The Buddy-Tree: An Efficient and Robust Access Method for Spatial Data Base Systems, 16th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), pages 590-601, 1990.
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Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures [online], Vreda Pieterse and Paul E. Black, eds. 17 December 2004. (accessed TODAY)
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