The predicate tree - A metaphor for visually describing complex Boolean queries

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4781 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 524-536

  Paolino, Luca ^a   Sebillo, Monica ^a   Tortora, Genoveffa ^a   Vitiello, Giuliana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Search engines; Sum of product expression; Usability evaluation; Visual metaphors

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN ALGEBRA; QUERY PROCESSING; SEARCH ENGINES; WEBSITES;

USABILITY EVALUATION; VISUAL METAPHORS;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

EID: 38349026596     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-76414-4_51     Document Type: Conference Paper

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