A visual interface and navigator for the P/FDM object database

Proceedings - User Interfaces to Data Intensive Systems, UIDIS 1999

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 54-63

  Gil, Ignacio ^a   Gray, Peter M D ^a   Kemp, Graham J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMON OBJECT REQUEST BROKER ARCHITECTURE (CORBA); DATABASE SYSTEMS; DROPS; OBJECT-ORIENTED DATABASES; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEARCH ENGINES; USER INTERFACES;

COMPLEX QUERIES; CONSTRUCT QUERIES; DATA VALUES; DATABASE SCHEMAS; GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATIONS; INTERMEDIATE RESULTS; SELECTION CRITERIA; VISUAL INTERFACE;

QUERY PROCESSING;

EID: 33750693993     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/UIDIS.1999.791462     Document Type: Conference Paper

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