Free-Form Query for Cell Phones

• Main Authors: Ahmad, Rohiza, Abdul-Kareem, Sameem
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.utp.edu.my/4476/1/templateWasetBali.pdf; http://www.waset.org/journals/waset/; http://eprints.utp.edu.my/4476/
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Petronas

To provide a wide range of queries to database query systems for small mobile devices, such as the PDAs and cell phones, is a challenge. Currently, due to the physical and resource limitations of these devices, most reported database querying systems developed for them are only offering a small set of pre-determined queries for users to possibly pose. We believe that by allowing free-form queries to be entered on the cell phones will be one way of supporting a wider scope of queries on these devices. Hence, this paper presents the free-form query language that can be used to issue free-form queries and the method used in translating these queries to their equivalent SQL statements.