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A Web-Based System for Handling Multidimensional Information through MXML

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Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS 2001)

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In this paper we address an issue common in the frame of WWW, namely information entities that present different facets under different contexts (or worlds). Handling such multifacet or multidimensional entities requires a multidimensional paradigm for Web data, which consists of representation, manipulation and presentation issues. For representing multidimensional data we employ Multidimensional XML, a markup language that incorporates dimensions in XML. We discuss the presentation of multidimensional data through multidimensional XSL stylesheets. We describe the design of a system that implements the basic functionality of the multidimensional paradigm, and demonstrates how a user can interact with a multidimensional document and view different variants of the document under different worlds.

This work has been partially supported by the Greek General Secretariat of Research and Technology under the project “Executable Intensional Languages and Intelligent Applications in Multimedia, Hypermedia and Virtual Reality” of DENEA’99.

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  1. Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications, National Centre for Scientific Research (N.C.S.R.), ‘Demokritos’, 153 10, Aghia Paraskevi Attikis, Greece

    Manolis Gergatsoulis, Yannis Stavrakas, Dimitris Karteris, Athina Mouzaki & Dimitris Sterpis

  2. Knowledge & Database Systems Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), 157 73, Athens, Greece

    Yannis Stavrakas

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  1. Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Akademijos st. 4, 2600, Vilnius, Lithuania

    Albertas Caplinskas

  2. Department of Informatics Systems, University of Klagenfurt, Universitätsstr. 65, 9020, Klagenfurt, Austria

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Gergatsoulis, M., Stavrakas, Y., Karteris, D., Mouzaki, A., Sterpis, D. (2001). A Web-Based System for Handling Multidimensional Information through MXML. In: Caplinskas, A., Eder, J. (eds) Advances in Databases and Information Systems. ADBIS 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2151. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44803-9_27

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