FLEX: A Tolerant and Cooperative User Interface to Databases.

@article{DBLP:journals/tkde/Motro90,
  author    = {Amihai Motro},
  title     = {FLEX: A Tolerant and Cooperative User Interface to Databases},
  journal   = {IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng.},
  volume    = {2},
  number    = {2},
  year      = {1990},
  pages     = {231-246},
  ee        = {db/journals/tkde/Motro90.html},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

Abstract

Copyright © 1990 by The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc. (IEEE). Abstract used with permission.

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