A relationally complete visual query language for heterogeneous dAta Sources and pervasive querying

Proceedings - International Conference on Data Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 471-482

  Polyviou, Stavros ^a   Samaras, George ^a   Evripidou, Paraskevas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESKTOP USER INTERFACE; VISUAL QUERY LANGUAGES;

ALGEBRA; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 28444464406     PISSN: 10844627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDE.2005.12     Document Type: Conference Paper

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