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The fixed nature of user interfaces to databases often means that they cannot easily be made to fit the requirements of a particular group of users or tasks. This paper looks at an approach to the interactive reconfiguration of such interfaces. Thus the creation of novel interfaces to the same database can be greatly speeded up and simplified. The paper shows how these concepts can be employed in the representation of schema design and queries to a semantic data model.
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England, D., Cooper, R. (1993). Reconfigurable User Interfaces for Databases. In: Cooper, R. (eds) Interfaces to Database Systems (IDS92). Workshops in Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3423-7_19
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