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  • The design and implementation of two-dimentional spatial data types and their integration into a relational database management system 
    Akiki, Pierre (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2007)
    The term spatial data signifies all geometric objects of different dimensions and the relations that could bind these objects together. Spatial data is, in general, divided into two parts: crisp spatial data and vague spatial data. Crisp spatial data has determinate coordinates and boundaries, whereas vague spatial data has indeterminate ones. The demand for spatial data support in database management systems is growing every day, yet not all commercial products provide spatial data support natively, and those that do merely provide it partially. Since database management systems are at the heart ...
  • Transforming the Web into a database with XML 
    El Daccache, Walid (Notre Dame University-Louaize, 2001)
    The World Wide Web is considered by far to be a simple and universal standard for exchanging information. This information that started to be manually composed and human readable, needed to grow more to reach dynamic composition and machine readability. Static web documents starved for a light breeze to release it from data and presentation mixture and lift it to a higher level of data representation and organization. XML "the extensible markup language'' as a standard of data representation on the web offered flexibility and simplicity in representing self describing electronic documents. This ...