KMVQL: a visual query interface based on Karnaugh map

  • Authors:
  • Jiwen Huo

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Waterloo

  • Venue:
  • AVI '08 Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Extracting information from data is an interactive process. Visualization plays an important role, particularly during data inspection. Querying is also important, allowing the user to isolate promising portions of the data. As a result, data exploration environments normally include both, integrating them tightly. This paper presents KMVQL, the Karnaugh map based visual query language. It has been designed to support the interactive exploration of multidimensional datasets. KMVQL uses Karnaugh map as the visual representation for Boolean queries. It provides a visual query interface to help users formulate arbitrarily complex Boolean queries by direct manipulation operations. With KMVQL, users do not have to worry about the logic operators any more, which makes Boolean query specification much easier. The Karnaugh maps also function as visualization spreadsheets that provide seamless integration of queries with their results, which is helpful for users to better understand the data and refine their queries efficiently.