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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">109</journal-id>
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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science</journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">0948-695X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">0948-6968</issn>
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        <publisher-name>Journal of Universal Computer Science</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3217/jucs-016-20-2986</article-id>
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          <subject>Research Article</subject>
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          <subject>E.m - MISCELLANEOUS</subject>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>A Geometrically Enhanced Conceptual Model and Query Language</article-title>
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          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Ma</surname>
            <given-names>Hui</given-names>
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          <email xlink:type="simple">hui.ma@ecs.vuw.ac.nz</email>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="A1">1</xref>
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      <aff id="A1">
        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand</addr-line>
        <institution>Victoria University of Wellington</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Wellington</addr-line>
        <country>New Zealand</country>
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        <fn fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Corresponding author: Hui Ma (<email xlink:type="simple">hui.ma@ecs.vuw.ac.nz</email>).</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by">
          <p>Academic editor: </p>
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      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2010</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>01</day>
        <month>11</month>
        <year>2010</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>16</volume>
      <issue>20</issue>
      <fpage>2986</fpage>
      <lpage>3015</lpage>
      <uri content-type="arpha" xlink:href="http://openbiodiv.net/EE832725-AC9C-5218-9FF9-B3177EA25BFB">EE832725-AC9C-5218-9FF9-B3177EA25BFB</uri>
      <uri content-type="zenodo_dep_id" xlink:href="https://zenodo.org/record/7001467">7001467</uri>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>Hui Ma</copyright-statement>
        <license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="" xlink:type="simple">
          <license-p>This article is freely available under the J.UCS Open Content License.</license-p>
        </license>
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      <abstract>
        <label>Abstract</label>
        <p>Motivated by our experiences with spatial modelling for the sustainable land use initiative we present a geometrically enhanced ER model (GERM), which preserves the key principles of entity-relationship modelling and at the same time introduces bulk constructors and geometric features. The model distinguishes between a syntactic level of types and an explicit internal level, in which types give rise to polyhedra that are defined by algebraic varieties. It further emphasises the stability of algebraic operations by means of a natural modelling algebra that extends the usual Boolean operations on point sets.</p>
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