Gral: An Extensible Relational Database System for Geometric Applications.

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/vldb/Guting89,
  author    = {Ralf Hartmut G{\"u}ting},
  editor    = {Peter M. G. Apers and
               Gio Wiederhold},
  title     = {Gral: An Extensible Relational Database System for Geometric
               Applications},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Very
               Large Data Bases, August 22-25, 1989, Amsterdam, The Netherlands},
  publisher = {Morgan Kaufmann},
  year      = {1989},
  isbn      = {1-55860-101-5},
  pages     = {33-44},
  ee        = {db/conf/vldb/Guting89.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/vldb/89},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

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