As You Like It: Personalized Database Visualization Using a Visual Language

Journal of Visual Languages and Computing

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 525-549

  Cruz, Isabel F ^a   Leveille, Peter S ^b  

^a 1120 Science and Engineering Offices   (United States)

^b MITRE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Constraint solving; Information visualization; Personalization; Visual query languages

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011153668     PISSN: 1045926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jvlc.2001.0217     Document Type: Article

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