DBLP-Query-Engine

Introduction

• This is a Java-based DBLP query application developed by Hasan Kamal and Luv Sharma
• It supports two types of queries on the DBLP bibliography:
  • Query 1: search using publication title(s) or author name; filter/sort output via date, relevance
  • Query 2: find authors having more than K publications, where K is given by user
• This application was developed as part of our course project for CSE201: Advanced Programming

Repository structure

• src/ contains entire java source code
  • src/DBLPQueryEngine.java contains the main() function of the application
• build.sh is the bash shell-script which can be used to build the application from source
• img/ contains screenshots, UML class diagram, and use case diagrams

Installation

• You should have java development environment installed on your machine (java and javac commands)
• Download dbpl.xml (~2.6GB after unzipping) and dblp.dtd from here (see section XML data on this page) and place both the files in the root directory of this project

Build

• First, make sure you have completed installation steps mentioned above
• cd into the root of this repository and run command ./build.sh

Screenshots

• Query 1
• Query 2

UML Class Diagram

• Following UML class diagram depicts the relation between various classes of this application

Use Case Diagrams