HistoryChart: A Visual Language for Historical Databases.

Katsumi Tanaka, Eitetsu Ohmoto: HistoryChart: A Visual Language for Historical Databases. DASFAA 1989: 18-24

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/dasfaa/TanakaO89,
  author    = {Katsumi Tanaka and
               Eitetsu Ohmoto},
  editor    = {Sukho Lee and
               Hideko S. Kunii and
               Won Kim and
               In Sup Paik and
               Yahiko Kambayashi},
  title     = {HistoryChart: A Visual Language for Historical Databases},
  booktitle = {International Symposium on Database Systems for Advanced Applications,
               Seoul, Korea, April 10-12, 1989},
  publisher = {Dept. of Computer Science, KAIST, P.O. Box 150, ChongRyang, Seoul,
               131-650, Korea},
  year      = {1989},
  pages     = {18-24},
  ee        = {db/conf/dasfaa/TanakaO89.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/dasfaa/89},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

Abstract

This paper describes the design and implementation of a visual query language HistoryChart for historical databases. The underlying data model for HistoryChart is a tuple-sequence data model, where each tuple allows set-valued attributes and contains a time-stamp attribute. Each history an object is represented by a sequence of these tuples. The major characteristics of the language HistoryChart are: (a) each historical (temporal) query is represented by a combination of visual symbolic patterns like time charts, (b) generalization hierarchies for attribute-names and attribute values are supported for specifying queries and displaying the retrieval results, and (c) the output of queries are also sequences of tuples, and are displayed in a visual form.

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