Graphical query interfaces for semistructured data: The QURSED system

ACM Transactions on Internet Technology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 390-438

  Petropoulos, Michalis ^a   Papakonstantinou, Yannis ^a   Vassalos, Vasilis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Design; Human Factors; Languages

Indexed keywords

GRAPHICAL QUERY; QURSED SYSTEM; SEMISTRUCTURED DATA; VISUAL ELEMENTS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COPYRIGHTS; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; DATABASE SYSTEMS; GRAPHIC METHODS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); XML;

DATA STRUCTURES;

EID: 21644461877     PISSN: 15335399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1064340.1064344     Document Type: Article

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