%0 Conference Paper %1 trzaska06 %A Trzaska, Mariusz %A Subieta, Kazimierz %B AVI '06: Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces %C New York, NY, USA %D 2006 %I ACM %K db exploration visual visualdb %P 500--503 %R http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1133265.1133369 %T Mavigator: a flexible graphical user interface to data sources %U http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1133265.1133369&coll=Portal&dl=ACM&CFID=22869358&CFTOKEN=59459126 %X We present Mavigator, a prototype of a graphical user interface to databases. The system is dedicated to naive users (computer non-professionals) and allows them to retrieve information from any data source, including object-oriented and XML-oriented databases. The system extends its core functionalities by the Active Extensions (AE) module, which assumes a trade-off between simplicity of user retrieval interfaces and complexity of output formatting functions. In AE the latter are to be done by a programmer using a fully-fledged programming language (currently C#). Thus the retrieved data can be post-processed or presented in any conceivable visual form. Another novel feature of the Mavigator is the Virtual Schemas module, which allows customization of a database schema, in particular, changing some names, adding new associations or hiding some classes. %@ 1-59593-353-0

@inproceedings{trzaska06, abstract = {We present Mavigator, a prototype of a graphical user interface to databases. The system is dedicated to naive users (computer non-professionals) and allows them to retrieve information from any data source, including object-oriented and XML-oriented databases. The system extends its core functionalities by the Active Extensions (AE) module, which assumes a trade-off between simplicity of user retrieval interfaces and complexity of output formatting functions. In AE the latter are to be done by a programmer using a fully-fledged programming language (currently C#). Thus the retrieved data can be post-processed or presented in any conceivable visual form. Another novel feature of the Mavigator is the Virtual Schemas module, which allows customization of a database schema, in particular, changing some names, adding new associations or hiding some classes.}, added-at = {2013-09-04T16:23:19.000+0200}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Trzaska, Mariusz and Subieta, Kazimierz}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2f50ba6da95ba737f5f482c5f0c255323/sac}, booktitle = {AVI '06: Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces}, description = {Mavigator}, doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1133265.1133369}, interhash = {8da16ff7b10f2a156ae4cfd784119cd2}, intrahash = {f50ba6da95ba737f5f482c5f0c255323}, isbn = {1-59593-353-0}, keywords = {db exploration visual visualdb}, location = {Venezia, Italy}, pages = {500--503}, publisher = {ACM}, timestamp = {2013-09-04T16:23:19.000+0200}, title = {Mavigator: a flexible graphical user interface to data sources}, url = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1133265.1133369&coll=Portal&dl=ACM&CFID=22869358&CFTOKEN=59459126}, year = 2006 }