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Multiple Representation Modeling

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Multi-granularity modeling; Multi-resolution; Multi-scale

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Geodata management systems (i.e., GIS and DBMS) are said to support multiple representationsif they have the capability to record and manage multiple representations of the same real-world phenomena. For example, the same building may have two representations, one with administrative data (e.g., owner and address) and a geometry of type point, and the other one with technical information (e.g., material and height) and a geometry of type surface. Multirepresentation is essential to make a data repository suitable for use by various applications that focus on the same real world of interest, while each application has a specific perception matching its goals. Different perceptions translate into different requirements determining what information is kept and how it is structured, characterized, and valued. A typically used case is map agencies that edit a series of national maps at various scales and on...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. CoDE, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

    Esteban Zimányi

  2. University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Christine Parent

  3. EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Stefano Spaccapietra & Christelle Vangenot

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  1. Esteban Zimányi
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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. Computer Science, University of Hagen, Hagen, Germany

    Ralf Hartmut Güting

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Zimányi, E., Parent, C., Spaccapietra, S., Vangenot, C. (2018). Multiple Representation Modeling. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_237

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