Restructuring for large databases: three levels of abstraction
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
A very high level programming language for data processing applications
Communications of the ACM
CONVERT: a high level translation definition language for data conversion
Communications of the ACM
A relational model of data for large shared data banks
Communications of the ACM
NFQL: the natural forms query language
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
CSC '89 Proceedings of the 17th conference on ACM Annual Computer Science Conference
Information system behavior specification by high level Petri nets
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
The Data Model Compiler: a tool for generating object-oriented database systems
OODS '86 Proceedings on the 1986 international workshop on Object-oriented database systems
The design of Star's records processing: data processing for the noncomputer professional
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Communications of the ACM
A form application development system
SIGMOD '82 Proceedings of the 1982 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Remarks on the algebra of non first normal form relations
PODS '82 Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD symposium on Principles of database systems
DEByE - Date extraction by example
Data & Knowledge Engineering
An Expert Database Design System Based on Analysis of Forms
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
An interactive database end user facility for the definition and manipulation of forms
SIGIR '84 Proceedings of the 7th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Data Structures for an Integrated Data Base Management and Information Retrieval System
VLDB '82 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Office information models and the representation of 'office objects'
Proceedings of the SIGOA conference on Office information systems
Office form definition and processing using a relational data model
COCS '84 Proceedings of the second ACM-SIGOA conference on Office information systems
Form document management system SPECDOQ its architecture and implementation
COCS '84 Proceedings of the second ACM-SIGOA conference on Office information systems
Data language requirements of database machines
AFIPS '82 Proceedings of the June 7-10, 1982, national computer conference
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In this paper we introduce a high level nonprocedural language Form Operation by Example (FOBE) to manipulate forms in office systems. The form data model is selected as the basis for the user interface. The idea of query-by-example is applied to forms. A precise semantics definition of the language is given. FOBE has a predetermined structure. It combines the advantages of procedural and nonprocedural languages. We believe that it is user-friendly and sufficiently powerful for office environments.