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  3D animation for the raw beginner using Maya
King R., Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, FL, 2014. 486 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-439852-64-4)

This book comprises 17 chapters, plus a 16-page color insert. Despite its title, even a mostly baked beginner will find the exercises challenging, the language undiluted, and the capacities, layers of interface, and encyclopedic functi...
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Aug 6 2015  
  DIRECT: a query facility for multiple databases
Merz U., King R. ACM Transactions on Information Systems 12(4): 339-359, 1994.  Type: Article

DIRECT is an interactive software system for querying heterogeneous databases. Contrary to other approaches, which are based on schema integration, it is not necessary to construct a global schema. Instead, database schemas and their d...
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Oct 1 1995  
  Designing database interfaces with DBface
King R., Novak M. ACM Transactions on Information Systems 11(2): 105-132, 1993.  Type: Article

The authors describe in some detail a tool for facilitating the construction of special-purpose graphical user interfaces to be used with object-oriented databases. The most interesting aspect of the approach described is that, instead...
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Nov 1 1993  
  Cactis: a self-adaptive, concurrent implementation of an object-oriented database management system
Hudson S., King R. ACM Transactions on Database Systems 14(3): 291-321, 1989.  Type: Article

This paper discusses the role of an object-oriented database management system (DBMS) for engineering applications. It describes a new approach to the design of a DBMS using object-oriented programming written in C under UNIX....
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Mar 1 1990  
  My cat is object-oriented
King R., ACM Press, New York, NY, 1989.  Type: Book (9789780201144109)

This paper attempts to establish a well-defined boundary between object-oriented and semantic data models. The author begins by correctly identifying, without hint of malice, the inclination of researchers to leap upon the nearest poss...
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Dec 1 1989  

 
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