Panorama: A database system that annotates its answers to queries with their properties

Journal of Intelligent Information Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 51-73

  Motro, Amihai ^a  

^a George Mason University   (United States)

Author keywords

Answer characterization; Cooperative answering; Meta answer; Relational database

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; EFFICIENCY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; POLYNOMIALS; QUERY LANGUAGES; RELIABILITY; USER INTERFACES;

ANSWER CHARACTERIZATION; ANSWERS; COOPERATIVE ANSWERING; EXTENSIBILITY; META ANSWERS; META INFORMATION; META PROCESSING; PANORAMA; PROPERTIES; RELEVANCE;

RELATIONAL DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030241393     PISSN: 09259902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00125522     Document Type: Article

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