Browsing large online data tables using generalized query previews

Information Systems

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 402-423

  Tanin, Egemen ^a,b   Shneiderman, Ben ^b   Xie, Hairuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Information visualization; Internet; Online querying; World wide web

Indexed keywords

INTERNET; QUERY LANGUAGES; SERVERS; WEB BROWSERS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; ONLINE QUERYING; SERVER LOAD;

ONLINE SEARCHING;

EID: 33751539234     PISSN: 03064379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.is.2005.12.006     Document Type: Article

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