PICASSO: an aid to an end-user facility

ABSTRACT

A characterization of an end user and a discussion of an end-user facility are presented. A language for aiding the data-base administrator in designing forms for user's of an end-user facility is described in a tutorial manner. The paper concludes with an outline of work related to the form's approach and other types of user-oriented query language facilities.

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