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However, it is important to note that the load balancing 
middlewares in the current solution check/scan SESQL 
sentences one by one. In order to provide a better performance, 
neighbouring SESQL sentences might be checked and 
considered together. In the meantime, we are aware that the 
decision rules identified are still quite simple and static, and 
needed to be improved further. Currently, we are trying to use 
machine learning methods to mine the application logs to 
improve the current rules. 
5. CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE WORK 
Spatial analysis plays a key role in GIS. In order to meet the 
increasing demand of spatial information applications in the 
Web, spatial analysis should be provided into WebGIS. This 
article aims to incorporate load balancing spatial analysis into 
XML-based WebGIS. Compared to other approaches that 
implement spatial queries and analyses solely on the server or 
browser sides, load balancing spatial analysis carries out spatial 
analysis either on the server or the browser sides depending on 
the network communication cost and the computational cost. 
This article mainly focuses on designing the load balancing 
middlewares. Comparison with other solutions shows that the 
proposed load balancing solution can optimize the execution of 
spatial analysis, and therefore lead to a better performance. 
The contributions of this article are: 1) proposing a finer 
granularity (by spatial objects) of transmitting spatial data in 
load balancing middlewares; 2) identifying more flexible and 
precise decision rules for distributing spatial operations to 
server or browser sides; 3) enabling high-performance spatial 
analysis in XML-based WebGIS. 
Our next step is to evaluate the proposed solution with more 
complex case studies. We are also interested in using machine 
learning methods to identify decision rules from application 
logs. Query optimization in SQL research might also provide 
some hints on improving the load balancing middlewares. 
Furthermore, the proposed solution is not only suitable for 
XML-based WebGIS. Therefore, application of the proposed 
solution in other WebGIS will be investigated. 
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APPENDIX. SESQL SENTENCES IN CASE STUDIES 
Case Study 1 
1) Calculate a 20 km buffer of river “Rl”: 
create view bf as select id, buffer(d, 20000) as huf from river 
where ID=”R1 ” 
2) Find out all the districts which overlay with this buffer : 
create view city list as select boundary Ad as id, boundary.d as d 
from boundary, bf where (over/ap(boundary.d, bfbuf) = true) 
3) Find out all the affected areas in each district: 
Create view affectedarea as select citvlist.id as id, intersection 
(citylist.d, bfbuf) as dfrom citylist, bf 
4) Calculate the size of affected area in each district: 
Select id, area(d) as area from affectedarea 
Case Study 2 
1) Compute the railway segments in each district: 
Create view segr as select boundary.id as id, intersection 
(boundary.d, railway.d) as int from boundary, railway 
2) Calculate the length of each railway segment: 
create view seg r len as select id, length(int) as len from seg r 
3) Sum up all the railway segments for each district: 
create view seg r total as select id, sum(len) as total len from 
segj'Jen group by id 
4) Filter out districts which have no railways: 
Select id, total len from seg r total where total Jen>0 
Case Study 3 
1) Calculate a 20 km buffer of railway “Guang-Mei-Shan”: 
create view buf as select id, buffer(d, 20000) as buf from 
railway where (id=‘Guang-Mei-Shan) 
2) Identify the districts whose centres are located in this buffer: 
Select city.id from city, buf where (within(city.d,buf.buf)=true)