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ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
An introduction to database systems: vol. I (4th ed.)
An introduction to database systems: vol. I (4th ed.)
Extending the database relational model to capture more meaning
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
Developing a natural language interface to complex data
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
The entity-relationship model—toward a unified view of data
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS) - Special issue: papers from the international conference on very large data bases: September 22–24, 1975, Framingham, MA
The design and implementation of INGRES
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
A relational model of data for large shared data banks
Communications of the ACM
Data Models
An entity-based database user interface
SIGMOD '80 Proceedings of the 1980 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Browsing in a loosely structured database
SIGMOD '84 Proceedings of the 1984 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
TIMBER: A Sophisticated Relation Browser (Invited Paper)
VLDB '82 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
ACL '85 Proceedings of the 23rd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
VAGUE: a user interface to relational databases that permits vague queries
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
F-logic: a higher-order language for reasoning about objects, inheritance, and scheme
SIGMOD '89 Proceedings of the 1989 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
OdeView: the graphical interface to Ode
SIGMOD '90 Proceedings of the 1990 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
A Visual Language Compiler for Information Retrieval by Visual Reasoning
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Logical foundations of object-oriented and frame-based languages
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
Unraveling the semantics of conceptual schemas
Communications of the ACM
The Jungle database search engine
SIGMOD '99 Proceedings of the 1999 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Plan Realization for Complex Command Interaction in the UNIX Help Domain
Artificial Intelligence Review - special issue on intelligent help systems for Unix part II: planning and knowledge representation
FLEX: A Tolerant and Cooperative User Interface to Databases
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Visual feedback in querying large databases
VIS '93 Proceedings of the 4th conference on Visualization '93
Interpretation of statistical queries to relational databases
SSDBM'1988 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Statistical and Scientific Database Management
Comprehensible answers to précis queries
CAiSE'06 Proceedings of the 18th international conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
EDBT'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Current Trends in Database Technology
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The standard, most efficient method to retrieve information from databases can be described as systematic retrieval: The needs of the user are described in a formal query, and the database management system retrieves the data promptly. There are several situations, however, in which systematic retrieval is difficult or even impossible. In such situations exploratory search (browsing) is a helpful alternative. This paper describes a new user interface, called BAROQUE, that implements exploratory searches in relational databases. BAROQUE requires few formal skills from its users. It does not assume knowledge of the principles of the relational data model or familiarity with the organization of the particular database being accessed. It is especially helpful when retrieval targets are vague or cannot be specified satisfactorily. BAROQUE establishes a view of the relational database that resembles a semantic network, and provides several intuitive functions for scanning it. The network integrates both schema and data, and supports access by value. BAROQUE can be implemented on top of any basic relational database management system but can be modified to take advantage of additional capabilities and enhancements often present in relational systems.