3. IDS 1996: Napier University, Edinburgh, UK

Jessie B. Kennedy, Peter J. Barcley (Eds.): Interfaces to Databases (IDS-3), Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Interfaces to Databases, Napier University, Edinburgh, 8-10 July 1996. Electronic Workshops in Computing, Springer 1996, ISBN 3-540-76066-0
http://www.ewic.org.uk/ewic/workshop/view.cfm/IDS-3

Invited Paper

Matthew Chalmers: Interface Design: More Craft than Science? 1

OODB & Interfaces

Norman W. Paton, Khoa Doan, Oscar Díaz, Arturo Jaime: Exploitation of Object-Oriented and Active Constructs in Database Interface Development. 1
Thomas Schweikert, Matthias Hemmje: A Graphical User Interface to the Object-Oriented Database System VODAK on the Basis of the Generic Visualisation Toolkit Lyberworld. 2
Armstrong Kadyamatimba, John A. Mariani, Peter Sawyer: Desktop Objects: Directly Manipulating Data and Meta Data. 2
Kenneth J. Mitchell, Jessie B. Kennedy: DRIVE - An Environment for the Organised Construction of User-Interfaces to Databases. 3

Query Languages

Marie-Aude Aufaure-Portier, Claude Trépied: A Survey of Query Languages for Geographic Information Systems. 3
Albert N. Badre, Tiziana Catarci, Antonio Massari, Giuseppe Santucci: Comparative Ease of Use of a Diagrammatic vs. an Iconic Query Language. 4
Francesca Benzi, Dario Maio, Stefano Rizzi: Visionary: A Visual Query Language Based on the User Viewpoint Approach. 4
Shi-Kuo Chang, Maria Francesca Costabile, M. Vairo: VR Queries and Their Transformations in a Progressive Querying Environment. 5

Interfaces to Remote Databases

Ee-Peng Lim, Soo-Yin Cheng: LibSearch: A Window-Based Frontend to Remote Bibliographic Databases on the Internet. 5
Laura Tarantino: Hypertabular Representation of Database Relations in World Wide Web Front-Ends. 6

Tools

Alison Crerar, Peter J. Barclay, Richard Watt: TOTEM: An Interactive Tool for Creative Data Modelling. 6
Marc Gemis: The Use of the Data Dictionary in DBMS Based on Graphs. 7

Applications

Mohamed Dbouk, D. Kvedarauskas, Patrice Boursier: Dynamic Maps: An Intuitive Interface for Naive Users of Geographical Database Systems. 7
J. Boyle, H. Horch, M. Scharf: Visualising Large Data Sets in Molecular Biology. 8