Query-by-Browsing

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

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Query-by-Browsing (QbB) is an intelligent database query interface that allows users to choose records of interst from a listing and then infers a query, for example in SQL. This is of course the opposite of most database query interfaces (including so called 'query by example') where the user writes.a query as input and then sees the results as output.

Defined on page 515

Used on Chap. 5: pages 102, 105, 106; Chap. 18: pages 439, 440; Chap. 19: page 466; Chap. 21: pages 513, 515, 516, 517, 522, 523, 529, 530

Also known as QBB

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Query-by-Browsing -- user ticks interesting records

Query-by-Browsing -- shows inferred rule both as SQL query and highlighted listing

Query-by-Browsing on the web

QbB -- under the bonnet