Title
Granular GeoGraph: a multi-granular conceptual model for spatial data
Abstract
The problem of managing multiple representations of the same spatial data at different levels of granularity is widely recognized as a relevant one in the spatial database community. We focus our attention on the phase of conceptual design. We provide (conceptual) spatial data models with two distinct, but related, granularity dimensions, namely, a purely spatial one and a semantic one, and we show that they allow us to capture scale as well semantic changes and to constrain the relationships between them. We give an account of the resulting (conceptual) representation formalism, called Granular GeoGraph, and we exhibit its potentialities by applying it to a real-world case study, taking advantage of a JAVA tool we developed for graphically synthesizing Granular
Year
Venue
Keywords
2005
SEBD
spatial data,conceptual model
Field
DocType
Citations 
Spatial analysis,Conceptual design,Conceptual model,Computer science,Theoretical computer science,Formalism (philosophy),Granularity,Java,Spatial database
Conference
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.42
6
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Iginia De Fent140.42
Donatella Gubiani2435.35
Angelo Montanari31535135.04