AutoJoin: Providing freedom from specifying joins

ICEIS 2005 - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 31-38

  Mason, Terrence ^a   Wang, Lixin ^b   Lawrence, Ramon ^a  

^a University of Iowa   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; Database; Inference; Interface; Query; Schema

Indexed keywords

AMBIGUITY; DATABASE; INFERENCE; INTERFACE; QUERY; SCHEMA;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SEARCH ENGINES;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 78649307227     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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