Increasing productivity in high energy physics data mining with a domain specific visual query language [Elektronische Ressource] / vorgelegt von Vasco Miguel Moreira do Amaral

Increasing productivity in High Energy Physics datamining with a Domain Speci c Visual QueryLanguageInauguraldissertationzur Erlangung des akademischen Gradeseines Doktors der Naturwissenschaftender Universit at Mannheimvorgelegt vonLicenciado em Engenharia Inform atica e de ComputadoresInstituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade Tecnica de LisboaVasco Miguel Moreira do Amaralaus Cascais, PortugalMannheim, 2004Dekan: Professor Dr. Jurgen Pottho , Universitat MannheimReferent: Dr. Guido Moerkotte, UniversitatKorreferent: Professor Dr. Reinhard Manner, Universitat MannheimTag der mundlic hen Prufung: 17. Februar 2005AcknowledgmentsI thank my mother, father, brother and Patricia for all the care, loveand moral support.My gratitude goes also: To Prof. Dr. Guido Moerkotte and to Dr. Sven Helmer, for believingin my work and for all the technical support while advising my thesis. To the Pi3 department for the friendly atmosphere that makes apleasant working environment. To Simone Seeger for helping me with the English corrections of mytext. To the Portuguese Governmental Foundation of Science and Tech-nology FCT for the Phd. scholarship (ref. SFRH / BD / 8918 /2002). To Prof. Dr. Jo~ ao Carvalho project manager of the Portuguese LIPHera-b group, and to Prof. Dr. Ant onio Amorim. Due to them andto this project I got introduced to the HEP world and contactedwith a real running HEP experiment.