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While the real world is supposedly unique, the perception we have of it is extremely personal. For instance, a traffic manager is likely to consider roads as segments linking different points in space, while a road maintenance service is likely to be interested in the status and nature of the road pavement. Perception is also time varying, as the same person looks differently at the world at different instants. In order to reconcile diverging requirements from users sharing the same database, research in databases has always looked for ways to support multiple representations of the same data.
We gratefully acknowledge support for this research by the European Economic Community (IST 10723 Project “MurMur Multiple Representation — Multiple Resolution”, and Interreg II Project “Cobalt”), and Swiss agencies OFES (grants 99.0791-1 & 99.0791-2) and FNRS.
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Spaccapietra, S., Vangenot, C., Parent, C. (2003). Multi-Representation: A New Paradigm for Databases?. In: Gertz, M. (eds) Integrity and Internal Control in Information Systems V. IICIS 2002. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 124. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35693-8_9
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