Kaleldoquery: A visual query language for object databases

Proceedings of the Workshop on Advanced Visual Interfaces AVI

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 247-257

  Murray, Norman ^a   Paton, Norman ^a   Goble, Carole ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Object databases; OQL; Three dimensional interface; Visual query language

Indexed keywords

3D INTERFACE; DESIGN PHILOSOPHY; EXPRESSIVE POWER; OBJECT DATABASE; OQL; THREE DIMENSIONAL INTERFACE; UNDER CONSTRUCTIONS; VISUAL QUERY LANGUAGES;

INTERFACES (COMPUTER);

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 84877287420     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/948496.948529     Document Type: Conference Paper

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