• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.38 no.5
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• pp.1-15
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• 2001

Expressing complex query conditions in a concise and intuitive way has been a challenge in the design of visual object-oriented query languages. We propose a visual query language called VOQL (Visual Object oriented Query Language) for object oriented databases. By employing the visual notation of graph and Venn diagram, the database schema and the advanced features of object oriented queries such as multi-valued path expressions and quantifiers can be represented in a simple way. VOQL has such good features as simple and intuitive syntax, well-defined semantics, and excellent expressive power of object-oriented queries compared with previous visual object-oriented query languages.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.7
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• pp.1311-1317
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• 2007

Recently, due to the popularity and explosive growth of the Internet, the information exchange is increasing so rapidly over the Internet. Also the XML is becoming a standard as well as a major tool of data exchange on the Internet and thus we propose the new indexing technique for evaluating a path-oriented query and design and implementation of Path-oriented Query Processing System to give useful for users. In proposed indexing technique, which combined a binary trio structure with a path signature file to improve performance of XML document retrieval.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.6 no.6
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• pp.1447-1457
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• 1999

Visual Object Query language(VOQL) proposed recently is a visual object-oriented database query language which can effectively represent queries on complex structured data, since schema information is visually included in query expressions. VOQL, which is a graph-based query language with inductively defined semantics, can concisely represent various text-based path expressions by graph, and clearly convey the semantics of complex path expressions. however, the existing VOQL assumes that all the attributes are multi-valued, and cannot visualize the concept of binding of object variables. therefore, VPAL query expressions are not intuitive, so that it is difficult to extend the existing VOQL theoretically. In this paper, we propose VOQL that improved on these problems. The improved VOQL visualizes the result of a single-valued attribute and that of a multi-valued attribute as a visual element and a subblob, respectively, and specifies the binding of object variables by introducing visual variables, so that the improved VOQL intuitively and clearly represents the semantics of queries.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2000.10a
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• pp.260-262
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• 2000

인터넷-웹 환경에서 객체관계형 데이터베이스를 위한 시각적 질의어(graphical query language)를 설계할 때 복잡한 질의 조건을 간단하고도 직관적으로 표현할 수 있도록 지원하는 것이 중요한 연구과제가 되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 객체관계형 데이터베이스의 경로식 표현을 인터넷/웹 기반으로 설계, 구현하였다. 시각적 표현 기밥을 사용하여 객체관계형 데이터베이스의 스키마(schema)와 질의어를 하나의 통일된 시각적 표시법으로 표현하며, 객체관계형 질의어인 경로식 표현에도 간단한 시각적 표시법을 이용하여 표현한다. 이 그래픽 질의어의 가장 큰 특징은 기존의 텍스트 기반 질의어들에 비하여 간단하고 직관적인 구문을 가지며, 사용자에게 편리한 인터넷/웹 기반의 데이터베이스 인터페이스를 제공한다.