Reengineering Object-Oriented Fuzzy Spatiotemporal Data into XML

Abstract

With the rapid development of the Internet, XML has become the defacto standard for integrating and exchanging data. Since more and more business data are stored in object-oriented database, we study the methodology of modeling fuzzy spatiotemporal data and transforming fuzzy spatiotemporal data from object-oriented databases to XML as well. In order to allow for better and platform independent sharing of fuzzy spatiotemporal data stored in an object-oriented format, we devise a fuzzy spatiotemporal data model in object-oriented database to capture the semantics of spatiotemporal features. In particular, XML schema best describes the existing fuzzy object-oriented schema, and we investigate the transforming rules of spatiotemporal data from fuzzy object-oriented database to XML. Furthermore, an instance demonstrates the validation of our approach. Such approach of transformation can provide a significant consolidation of the interoperability of fuzzy spatiotemporal data from object-oriented databases to XML.