Implementation of a Prototype Generalized File Translator

Summary: Honeywell's prototype generalized file translator, driven by input/output descriptions and a transformation specification. Uses a straightforward FDDL data-definition language for programmers, addressing DDL tooling, performance, and runtime error detection. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2012
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1975
Pagerank: 5.6897772e-05
Overall Rank: 7,410 | 48.51%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. David E. Bakkom
2. James A. Behymer

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
13,094	An Access Path Specification Language For Restructuring Network Databases	1977	SIGMOD	5.1725247e-05

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