Amihai Motro: Publications by Subject

Cooperative user interfaces to databases

  1. Baroque: Relational browser
    1. A. Motro. BAROQUE: A Browser for Relational Databases. ACM Transactions on Office Information Systems, Vol. 4, No. 2, April 1986, pp. 164–181. Review from ACM Computing Reviews
  2. Query generalization (query relaxation)
    1. A. Motro. Query Generalization: a Method for Interpreting Null Answers. In Expert Database Systems (L. Kerschberg, Editor), Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, 1986, pp. 597–616.
      Earlier version: A. Motro. Query Generalization: A Technique for Handling Query Failure. In Proceedings of EDS 84, First International Workshop on Expert Database Systems, Kiawah Island, South Carolina, October 1984, pp. 314–325.
    2. A. Motro. SEAVE: A Mechanism for Verifying User Presuppositions in Query Systems. ACM Transactions on Office Information Systems, Vol. 4, No. 4, October 1986, pp. 312–330. Review from ACM Computing Reviews
  3. Vague queries, neighborhood queries
    1. A. Motro. Extending the Relational Database Model to Support Goal Queries. In Expert Database Systems (L. Kerschberg, Editor). Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, 1987, pp. 129–150.
      Earlier version: A. Motro. Supporting Goal Queries in Relational Databases. In Proceedings of EDS 86, First International Conference on Expert Database Systems, Charleston, South Carolina, April 1986, pp. 85–96.
    2. A. Motro. VAGUE: A User Interface to Relational Databases that Permits Vague Queries. ACM Transactions on Office Information Systems, Vol. 6, No. 3, July 1988, pp. 187–214. Review from ACM Computing Reviews
  4. Query synthesis from tokens
    1. A. Motro. Constructing Queries from Tokens. In Proceedings of ACM-SIGMOD 86, International Conference on Management of Data, Washington, DC, May 1986, pp. 120–131.
  5. Flex: Tolerant user interface (query salvation, synthesis and generalization)
    1. A. Motro. The Design of FLEX: A Tolerant and Cooperative User Interface to Databases. In Proceedings of HCI 87, Second International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Honolulu, Hawaii, August 1987. Volume 10B in the series Advances in Human Factors/Ergonomics: Cognitive Engineering in the Design of Human-Computer Interaction and Expert Systems (G. Salvendy, Editor). Elsevier Science Publishers, 1987, pp. 583–590.
    2. A. Motro. FLEX: A Tolerant and Cooperative User Interface to Databases. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 2, No. 2, June 1990, pp. 231–246.
  6. ViewFinder: Object-oriented browser
    1. A. Motro, A. D'Atri and L. Tarantino. The Design of KIVIEW: An Object-Oriented Browser. In Expert Database Systems (L. Kerschberg, Editor). Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, 1989, pp. 107–131.
      Earlier version: A. Motro, A. D'Atri and L. Tarantino. The Design of KIVIEW: An Object-Oriented Browser. In Proceedings of EDS 88, Second International Conference on Expert Database Systems, Tysons Corner, Virginia, April 1988, pp. 17–32.
    2. A. D'Atri, A. Motro and L. Tarantino. ViewFinder: An Object-Oriented Browser. Information and Software Technology, Vol. 41, No. 4, March 1999, pp. 211–234.
  7. Summary of three systems (Baroque, Vague, Flex)
    1. A. Motro. A Trio of Database User Interfaces for Handling Vague Retrieval Requests. IEEE Data Engineering (Special issue on imprecision in databases), Vol. 12, No. 2, June 1989, pp. 54–63.
      Included in Data Engineering, Volume 8 (W. Kim, S. Jajodia, A. Motro, M.J. Carey and R. King, Editors), IEEE Computer Society Press, 1990, pp. 118–125.
  8. Surveys of cooperative database systems
    1. A. Motro. Cooperative Database Systems. International Journal of Intelligent Systems, Vol. 11, No. 10, October 1996, pp. 717–732.
      Earlier version: A. Motro. Cooperative Database Systems. In Proceedings of FQAS 94, Workshop on Flexible Query Answering Systems, Roskilde, Denmark, November 1994, pp. 1–16.
    2. A. Motro. Cooperative Database Systems. In Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science, Volume 66 – Supplement 29. Marcel Dekker Inc., 2000, pp. 79–97.
  9. Ranking information resources
    1. J. Church and A. Motro. Which Should We Try First? Ranking Information Resources through Query Classification. In Proceedings of FQAS 11, 9th International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems, Ghent, Belgium, October 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 7022, Springer-Verlag, pp. 364–375.