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Geometrically Enhanced Conceptual Modelling

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Conceptual Modeling - ER 2009 (ER 2009)

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Motivated among others by the need to support spatial modelling for the sustainable land use initiative we present a geometrically enhanced ER model (GERM), which preserves the key principles of ER modelling and at the same time introduces bulk constructions and types that support geometric objects. The model distinguishes between a syntactic level of types and an explicit internal level, in which types give rise to polyhedra that are defined by algebraic varieties. It further emphasises the stability of algebraic operations by means of a natural modelling algebra that extends the usual Boolean operations on point sets.

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  1. School of Engineering and Computer Science, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

    Hui Ma

  2. Information Science Research Centre, Palmerston North, New Zealand

    Klaus-Dieter Schewe

  3. Institute of Computer Science, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Kiel, Germany

    Bernhard Thalheim

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Av. Antônio Carlos 6627, Prédio do ICEx, sala 4010, Pampulha , Belo, 31270-901, Horizonte, MG, Brazil

    Alberto H. F. Laender

  2. Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Informazione, DICo, Università degli Studi di Milano, Comelico, 39/41, 20135, Milano, Italy

    Silvana Castano

  3. Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, 1501 Page Mill Rd., 94304, Palo Alto, CA, USA

    Umeshwar Dayal

  4. Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento, Via sommarive 14, 38050, Povo (Trento), Italy

    Fabio Casati

  5. Instituto de Informática, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Caixa Postal 15.064, 91.501-970, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil

    José Palazzo M. de Oliveira

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Ma, H., Schewe, KD., Thalheim, B. (2009). Geometrically Enhanced Conceptual Modelling. In: Laender, A.H.F., Castano, S., Dayal, U., Casati, F., de Oliveira, J.P.M. (eds) Conceptual Modeling - ER 2009. ER 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5829. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04840-1_18

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