An Interactive Query Language for External Data Bases

Summary: Introduces a query language for accessing external databases through videotex and communication networks. Uniquely models interactive querying as request, reply, and dynamics, deriving language requirements from home-user interaction constraints. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 7725
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1982
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Overall Rank: 14,537 | 0.27%
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Authors

1. F.H. Lochovsky (University of Toronto)
2. D.C. Tsichritzis (University of Toronto)

BibTeX Citation

@article{lochovsky_vldb82,
        title = {{An Interactive Query Language for External Data Bases}},
        author = {Lochovsky, F.H. and Tsichritzis, D.C.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '82},
        pages = {11},
        year = {1982}
}

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