Bachelor Thesis: Flexible Address Model

Title:
Flexible Address Model

Description:
Location-based services use latitude and longitude – the point geocoordinates – when referring to locations as well as applications that utilize location-based services. Humans, on the other hand, refer to locations using named entities – the location's postal address. Postal addresses are composed of named areas, named streets and numbered buildings; the types of elements that are named and their ordering differ between countries. Current systems often try to fit address models of western countries to exotic addressing schemes. In emerging countries the addressing schemes may change or are not even defined yet.

The objective of this thesis is to create a model that is flexible enough to contain "common" addresses as well as any other addressing scheme, and to implement a prototype application that can compose correct postal addresses using that model.

Challenges:

• Collect various addressing schemes as they are used around the world
• Design a flexible address model that fits all collected addressing schemes
• Implement a storage layer that can hold and index addresses in the flexible address model format
• Implement a prototype application that can compose correct postal addresses from the model

Prerequisites:

• Interest in object oriented design and modeling
• Proficiency in programming in a language of choice
• Experience with using relational databases and interest in NOSQL solutions

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Axel Küpper, Konstantin Clemens, Ulrich Bareth

Type: Bachelor Thesis

Duration: 4 months