@conference {16462,
	title = {Exploiting multiple paths to express scientific queries},
	booktitle = {16th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, 2004. Proceedings},
	year = {2004},
	month = {2004/06/21/23},
	pages = {357 - 360},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	organization = {IEEE},
	abstract = {The purpose of this demonstration is to present the main features of the BioNavigation system. Scientific data collection needed in various stages of scientific discovery is typically performed manually. For each scientific object of interest (e.g., a gene, a sequence), scientists query a succession of Web resources following links between retrieved entries. Each of the steps provides part of the intended characterization of the scientific object. This process is sometimes partially supported by hard-coded scripts or complex queries that will be evaluated by a mediation-based data integration system or against a data warehouse. These approaches fail in guiding the scientists during the collection process. In contrast, the BioNavigation approach presented in the paper provides the scientists with information on the available alternative resources, their provenance, and the costs of data collection. The BioNavigation system enhances a mediation-based integration system and provides scientists with support for the following: to ask queries at a high conceptual level; to visualize the multiple alternative resources that may be exploited to execute their data collection queries; to choose the final execution path to evaluate their queries.},
	keywords = {access protocols, biology computing, BioNavigation system, complex queries, Costs, Data analysis, data handling, Data visualization, data warehouse, Data warehouses, Databases, diseases, distributed databases, hard-coded scripts, information resources, Information retrieval, mediation-based data integration system, multiple paths, query evaluation, Query processing, scientific data collection, scientific discovery, scientific information, scientific information systems, scientific object of interest, scientific queries, sequences, Web resources},
	isbn = {0-7695-2146-0},
	doi = {10.1109/SSDM.2004.1311231},
	author = {Lacroix,Z. and Moths,T. and Parekh,K. and Raschid, Louiqa and Vidal,M. -E}
}
@conference {18454,
	title = {Pictorial query trees for query specification in image databases},
	booktitle = {Fourteenth International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 1998. Proceedings},
	volume = {1},
	year = {1998},
	month = {1998/08//},
	pages = {919-921 vol.1 - 919-921 vol.1},
	publisher = {IEEE},
	organization = {IEEE},
	abstract = {A technique that enables specifying complex queries in image databases using pictorial query trees is presented. The leaves of a pictorial query tree correspond to individual pictorial queries that specify which objects should appear in the target images as well as how many occurrences of each object are required. In addition, the minimum required certainty of matching between query-image objects and database-image objects, as well as spatial constraints that specify bounds on the distance between objects and the relative direction between them are also specified. Internal nodes in the query tree represent logical operations (AND, OR, XOR) and their negations on the set of pictorial queries (or subtrees) represented by its children. The syntax of query trees is described. Algorithms for processing individual pictorial queries and for parsing and computing the overall result of a pictorial query tree are outlined},
	keywords = {Automation, complex queries, Computer science, content-based retrieval, Database systems, database-image objects, Educational institutions, Electrical capacitance tomography, grammars, Image databases, Image matching, parsing, pictorial query trees, Postal services, query specification, query-image objects, spatial constraints, syntax, visual databases},
	isbn = {0-8186-8512-3},
	doi = {10.1109/ICPR.1998.711383},
	author = {Soffer,A. and Samet, Hanan and Zotkin,Dmitry N}
}
@article {17104,
	title = {Dynamic queries for visual information seeking},
	journal = {IEEE Software},
	volume = {11},
	year = {1994},
	month = {1994/11//},
	pages = {70 - 77},
	abstract = {Considers how dynamic queries allow users to "fly through" databases by adjusting widgets and viewing the animated results. In studies, users reacted to this approach with an enthusiasm more commonly associated with video games. Adoption requires research into retrieval and display algorithms and user-interface design. The author discusses how experts may benefit from visual interfaces because they will be able to formulate more complex queries and interpret intricate results.<>},
	keywords = {Algorithm design and analysis, animated results, animation, Application software, Command languages, complex queries, database management systems, Databases, display algorithms, Displays, dynamic queries, Educational institutions, Games, Graphical user interfaces, human factors, Query processing, retrieval, Runtime, Technological innovation, user-interface design, visual databases, visual information seeking, visual interfaces, widgets},
	isbn = {0740-7459},
	doi = {10.1109/52.329404},
	author = {Shneiderman, Ben}
}
