An introduction to database systems: vol. I (4th ed.)
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ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Communications of the ACM
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ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Pasta-3's graphical query language: direct manipulation cooperative queries, full expressive power
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A model of queries for object-oriented databases
VLDB '89 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Very large data bases
A query language for the O2 object-oriented databases
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Towards an algebraic theory of recursion
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
A Visual Language Compiler for Information Retrieval by Visual Reasoning
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
QBD*: A Graphical Query Language with Recursion
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
DOODLE: a visual language for object-oriented databases
SIGMOD '92 Proceedings of the 1992 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
ACM SIGMOD Record
Fundamental graphical primitives for visual query languages
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Query representation and management in a multiparadigmatic visual query environment
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GraphLog: a visual formalism for real life recursion
PODS '90 Proceedings of the ninth ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART symposium on Principles of database systems
Proceedings of the seventh ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART symposium on Principles of database systems
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Proceedings of the IFIP TC2/WG 2.6 Second Working Conference on Visual Database Systems II
Optimal implementation of conjunctive queries in relational data bases
STOC '77 Proceedings of the ninth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
Visual metaphors for interacting with databases
ACM SIGCHI Bulletin
A multiparadigmatic environment for interacting with databases
ACM SIGCHI Bulletin
Databases and the Web: new requirements for an easy access
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) - Special issue: position statements on strategic directions in computing research
Graph-based GUIs for querying XML data: the XML-GL experience
Proceedings of the 2001 ACM symposium on Applied computing
A Knowledge-Based Query System for Biological Databases
FQAS '02 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems
Interacting With IDL: The Adaptive Visual Interface
ECDL '98 Proceedings of the Second European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
A Knowledge Based Paradigm for Querying Databases
DEXA '00 Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
GDM: a new graph based data model using functional abstractionx
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Modeling object views in distributed query processing on the grid
OTM'05 Proceedings of the 2005 OTM Confederated international conference on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems
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We describe an approach for multiparadigmatic visual access to databases, which is proposed to achieve seamless integration of different interaction paradigms. The user is provided with an adaptive interface augmented by a user model, supporting different visual representations of both data and queries. The visual representations are characterized on the basis of the chosen visual formalisms, namely forms, diagrams, and icons. To access different databases, a unified data model, the Graph Model, is used as a common underlying formalism to which databases, expressed in the most popular data models, can be mapped. Graph Model databases are queried through the adaptive interface. The semantics of the query operations is formally defined in terms of graphical primitives. Such a formal approach permits us to define the concept of "atomic query," which is the minimal portion of a query that can be transferred from one interaction paradigm to another and processed by the system. Since certain interaction modalities and visual representations are more suitable for certain user classes, the system can suggest to the user the most appropriate interaction modality as well as the visual representation, according to the user model. Some results on user model construction are presented.