A Data Modeling Approach to Simplify the Design of User Interfaces

Summary: Proposes a unified data-modeling framework for designing word-oriented user interfaces, representing interface aspects, application states, and state transitions. Its key distinction is explicit separation of semantic and syntactic concerns, supporting both command languages and practical natural-language systems. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 7800
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1983
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 13,257 | 9.05%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Michel Pilote (Netron Inc.; University of Toronto)

BibTeX Citation

@article{pilote_vldb83,
        title = {{A Data Modeling Approach to Simplify the Design of User Interfaces}},
        author = {Pilote, Michel},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '83},
        year = {1983}
}

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139	A Language Facility for Designing Interactive Database-Intensive Applications	1978	SIGMOD	0.00029742792

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