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ISMB
1998
14 years 16 days ago
Advanced Query Mechanisms for Biological Databases
Existing query interfaces for biological databases are either based on fixed forms or textual query languages. Users of a fixed form-based query interface are limited to performin...
I-Min A. Chen, Anthony Kosky, Victor M. Markowitz,...
VLDB
1989
ACM
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14 years 3 months ago
Pasta-3's Graphical Query Language: Direct Manipulation, Cooperative Queries, Full Expressive Power
Graphical Direct Manipulation (GrDM) query languagesare characterized and positioned with respect to traditional textual query languages. After a brief survey of the current state...
Michel Kuntz, Rainer Melchert
UIST
1998
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Graphical Query Specification and Dynamic Result Previews for a Digital Library
Textual query languages based on Boolean logic are common amongst the search facilities of on-line information repositories. However, there is evidence to suggest that the syntact...
Steve Jones