Visionary: A viewpoint-based visual language for querying relational databases

Journal of Visual Languages and Computing

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 117-145

  Benzi, Francesca ^a   Maio, Dario ^a   Rizzi, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

VPL V.B: database languages; VPL II.B.1: diagrammatic languages

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033114394     PISSN: 1045926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jvlc.1998.0102     Document Type: Article

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