User-database interaction at the knowledge level of abstraction

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 657-668

  Chan, Hock C ^a   Goldstein, Robert C ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Abstraction levels; Entity relationship model; Knowledge level; Relational model; SQL; User database interface

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; DATA STRUCTURES; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES; RELATIONAL DATABASE SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES;

ENTITY RELATIONSHIP (ER) MODEL; KNOWLEDGE LEVEL (KL) INTERFACES;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 0031247557     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0950-5849(97)00022-0     Document Type: Article

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