Kaleidoquery - a flow-based visual language and its evaluation

Journal of Visual Languages and Computing

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 151-189

  Murray, Norman S ^a   Paton, Norman W ^b   Goble, Carole A ^b   Bryce, Joanne ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0034164714     PISSN: 1045926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jvlc.1999.0150     Document Type: Article

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