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  • Cooperative Query Formulation for Geographic Databases

    Masatoshi ARIKAWA  Ken'ichi HORIKAWA  Yahiko KAMBAYASHI  

     
    PAPER-Advanced Applications

      Vol:
    E78-D No:11
      Page(s):
    1369-1376

    Queries to generate a map from geographic detabases are too large and complex for users to specify all components in it. Thematic parts of the map should be described by users as ad hoc queries. However, background parts of it should be inferred from users' queries corresponding to the thematic parts. Furthermore, it is important for the map systems to lead users' constructing their ad hoc queries and to infer visualization methods applied to the data retrieved by the ad hoc queries. This paper discusses a framework to infer supplemental queries and visualization methods in order to make the retrieval results into a feasible map using geographic domain hierarchical levels, geographic domain thesauruses and existing example queries. The framework allows users to know mismatches of components in queries, inappropriate queries for maps, and deriving candidates for additional components in queries.