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Pasta-3's Graphical Query Language: Direct Manipulation, Cooperative Queries, Full Expressive Power.

Michel Kuntz, Rainer Melchert: Pasta-3's Graphical Query Language: Direct Manipulation, Cooperative Queries, Full Expressive Power. VLDB 1989: 97-105
@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/vldb/KuntzM89,
  author    = {Michel Kuntz and
               Rainer Melchert},
  editor    = {Peter M. G. Apers and
               Gio Wiederhold},
  title     = {Pasta-3's Graphical Query Language: Direct Manipulation, Cooperative
               Queries, Full Expressive Power},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Very
               Large Data Bases, August 22-25, 1989, Amsterdam, The Netherlands},
  publisher = {Morgan Kaufmann},
  year      = {1989},
  isbn      = {1-55860-101-5},
  pages     = {97-105},
  ee        = {db/conf/vldb/KuntzM89.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/vldb/89},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}
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Abstract

Graphical Direct Manipulation (GrDM) query languages are characterized and positioned with respect to traditional textual query languages. After a brief survey of the current state of the art, the Pasta-3 GrDM query language is presented, with emphasis on three features that make significant new contributions to this field: (1) its GrDM basis (query editing through clickingand dragging of an iconic representation of the query expression), (2) its cooperative environment (handy values, automatic path completion, edit-and-reevaluate loop), and (3) its expressive power (arbitrarily complex conditions, recursive queries, logical variables and quantification, subqueries, mixing in Prolog code). Several examples taken directly from the nearly complete implementation are discussed in detail.

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Peter M. G. Apers, Gio Wiederhold (Eds.): Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, August 22-25, 1989, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Morgan Kaufmann 1989, ISBN 1-55860-101-5
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