The following papers describe the theoretical and experimental results that led to the development of Geophile.
SIGMOD: ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data.
SSD: International Symposium on Spatial Data
VLDB: International Conference on Very Large Databases
F. Manola, J. A. Orenstein: Toward a General Spatial Data Model for an Object-Oriented DBMS. VLDB 1986: 328-335.
J. A. Orenstein: An Algorithm for Computing the Overlay of k-Dimensional Spaces. SSD 1991: 381-400.
J. A. Orenstein: A Comparison of Spatial Query Processing Techniques for Native and Parameter Spaces. SIGMOD Conference 1990: 343-352.
J. A. Orenstein: Redundancy in Spatial Databases. SIGMOD Conference 1989: 294-305.
J. A. Orenstein: Strategies for Optimizing the Use of Redundancy in Spatial Databases. SSD 1989: 115-134.
J. A. Orenstein: Spatial Query Processing in an Object-Oriented Database System. SIGMOD Conference 1986: 326-336.
J. A. Orenstein: Multidimensional Tries Used for Associative Searching. IPL 14(4): 150-157 (1982).
J. A. Orenstein: Algorithms and Data Structures for the Implementation of a Relational Database System. Ph.D. dissertation, McGill University, (1982).
J. A. Orenstein, F. Manola: PROBE Spatial Data Modeling and Query Processing in an Image Database Application. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 14(5): 611-629 (1988).
J. A. Orenstein, T. H. Merrett: A Class of Data Structures for Associative Searching. PODS 1984: 181-190.