Vague: A User Interface to Relational Databases that Permits Vague Queries

ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1988, Pages 187-214

  Motro, Amihai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Approximate match retrieval; data metric; database; neighborhood query; relational database; user interface; vague query

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING, BUSINESS--DATABASE SYSTEMS; DATA PROCESSING--DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

APPROXIMATE MATCH RETRIEVAL; DATA METRIC; DATABASE MANAGEMENT; RELATIONAL DATABASE; USER INTERFACE; VAGUE QUERY;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0024036750     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: 15582868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/45945.48027     Document Type: Article

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