This paper introduces a visual language for active database systems. We present a new approach to database programming based on visual active language that allows us to describe active rules in a graphical way. The resulting visual language can be transformed into a textual one. In addition, an active system can be represented with several diierent graphs showing the interactions of rules and t...

The study of polygenic disorders such as cardiovascular and metabolic diseases requires access to vast amounts of experimental and in silico data. Where animal models of disease are being used, visualization of syntenic genome regions is one of the most important tools supporting data analysis. We define what is required to visualize synteny in terms of the data being displayed, the screen layo...

It is well known that auditory cortical areas are activated by visual stimulation in the deaf. However, it is not known whether the information enters from the primary visual area or high-level visual areas. In this study, we used visual language stimulation to examine visual-auditory functional connectivity. For this, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in a congenitally deaf ...

VISUAL is a graphical query language designed for scientific databases. VISUAL is icon-based and is suitable for domains where visualization of the relationships are important for the domain scientist to express queries. Graphical objects are not tied to the underlying formalism; instead, they represent the relationships of the application domain. VISUAL supports relational, nested, and object-...

XML is becoming one of the most influential standards concerning data exchange and Web-presentations. In this paper we present a visual language for querying and transforming XML data. The language is based on a visual document metaphor and the notion of document patterns. It combines an intuitive, dynamic form-based interface for defining queries and transformation rules with powerful pattern ...

This paper is a research project submitted for credit in the Non-Traditional Databases course at the University of Waterloo. We present the XQuery Visualization Tool (XQVT), an XQuery interface built upon a graphical language. The XQVT language maintains all the power of XQuery. This paper describes the XQVT language and illustrates sample queries. A prototype language implementation and user i...

Natural language provides a widely accessible and expressive interface for robotic agents. To understand language in complex environments, agents must reason about the full range of language inputs and their correspondence to the world. For example, consider the scenario and instruction in Figure 1. To execute the instruction, the robot must identify the top shelf, recognize the two stacks as s...