Readings in object-oriented database systems
Readings in object-oriented database systems
ADAM: an object-oriented database system implemented in Prolog
BNCOD 7 Proceedings of the seventh British national conference on Databases
Designing the user interface (2nd ed.): strategies for effective human-computer interaction
Designing the user interface (2nd ed.): strategies for effective human-computer interaction
Visualizing queries and querying visualizations
ACM SIGMOD Record
Query representation and management in a multiparadigmatic visual query environment
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems - Special issue: advances in visual information management systems
Gql, a declarative graphical query language based on the functional data model
AVI '94 Proceedings of the workshop on Advanced visual interfaces
The functional data model and the data languages DAPLEX
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
A Foundation for Evolution from Relational to Object Databases
EDBT '88 Proceedings of the International Conference on Extending Database Technology: Advances in Database Technology
An Exploratory Study of Ad Hoc Query Languages to Databases
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Data Engineering
Object-Oriented Database Systems: How Much SQL Do They Understand?
DEXA '94 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
Kaleidoquery: a visual query language for object databases
AVI '98 Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces
VIREX: visual relational to XML conversion tool
Journal of Visual Languages and Computing
VIREX and VRXQuery: interactive approach for visual querying of relational databases to produce XML
Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
Exploitation of object-oriented and active constructs in database interface development
Interfaces'96 Proceedings of the 1996 international conference on Interfaces to Databases
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This paper reports on experience obtained during the design, implementation and use of a multi-paradigm query interface to an object-oriented database. The specific system which has been developed allows equivalent data retrieval tasks to be expressed using textual, form-based and graph-based notations, and supports automatic translation of queries between these three paradigms. The motivation behind the development of such an interface is presented, as is the software architecture which supports the multi-paradigm functionality. Feedback from initial user trials with a dual-paradigm version of the system indicates that users can use it to perform complex query tasks without difficulty, that given the choice users overwhelmingly prefer the graph- based to the text-based interaction style, and that graphical visualisation of textual queries appears to aid users in query construction.