Update-By-Dialogue: An Interactive Approach To Database Modification

Summary: Presents update-by-dialogue, an interactive framework for database modification emphasizing semantic consistency. Defines four ops (insert, delete, change, copy) in an entity-sets model; dialogues are stored-schema driven and robust to evolution. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2107
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1977
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 14,560 | 0.11%
DOI: 10.1145/509404.509410

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Authors

1. G. C. H. Sharman (IBM)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{sharman_sigmod77,
        title = {{UPDATE-BY-DIALOGUE: AN INTERACTIVE APPROACH TO DATABASE MODIFICATION}},
        author = {Sharman, G. C. H.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '77},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/509404.509410},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/509404.509410},
        year = {1977}
}

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14,567	A Constructive Definition Of Third Normal Form	1976	SIGMOD	-

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