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Multirepresentation generalizes known concepts such as database views and geographic multiscale databases. This chapter describes the handling of multi-representation in the MADS (Modeling Application Data with Spatio-temporal features) data modeling approach. MADS builds on the concept of orthogonality to support multiple modeling dimensions. The structural basis of the MADS model is based on extended entity-relationship (ER) constructs. This is complemented with three other modeling dimensions: space, time, and representation. The latter allows the specification of multiple perceptions of the real world and modeling of the multiple representations of real-world elements that are needed to materialize these perceptions.
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Traditional database design organizes the data of interest into a database schema, which describes objects and their relationships, as well as their attributes. At the...
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Parent, C., Spaccapietra, S., Zimányi, E. (2017). Modeling and Multiple Perceptions. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H., Zhou, X. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17885-1_805
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