An information states blackboard as an intelligent querying interface for snow and avalanche data

Proceedings - User Interfaces to Data Intensive Systems, UIDIS 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 32-41

  Kapetanios, E ^a   Norrie, M C ^a   Frei, A ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Meta data; Scientific information systems; Visual query languages

Indexed keywords

GRAPHIC METHODS; INTERFACE STATES; METADATA; QUERY LANGUAGES; QUERY PROCESSING; SNOW; USER INTERFACES; VISUAL LANGUAGES;

CONCEPTUAL MODEL; FINITE STATE; FORECASTING SYSTEM; INFORMATION STATE; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; QUERYING INTERFACES; SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION; VISUAL QUERY LANGUAGES;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 33746522191     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/UIDIS.1999.791460     Document Type: Conference Paper

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