A Methodology of Application Program Analysis and Conversion Based on Database Semantics

Summary: Proposes a methodology tying database semantics to application program analysis for cross-DBMS migration. Models source/target semantics as entity types and associations; programs are language sequences with access-path graphs, using meaning-preserving transforms to adapt to DB changes and file reorganization. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2112
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1977
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 13,281 | 8.89%
DOI: 10.1145/509404.509417

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Authors

1. Stanley Y. W. Su (University of Florida)
2. B. J. Liu (National Taiwan University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{su_sigmod77,
        title = {{A Methodology of Application Program Analysis and Conversion Based on Database Semantics}},
        author = {Su, Stanley Y. W. and Liu, B. J.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '77},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/509404.509417},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/509404.509417},
        year = {1977}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,355	Some DML Instruction Sequences for Application Program Analysis and Conversion	1978	SIGMOD	6.7473477e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
325	Implementation Of A Structured English Query Language	1975	SIGMOD	0.00021162719
589	On The Semantics Of The Relational Data Model	1975	SIGMOD	0.00016066932
1,304	An Architecture For High-Level Language Database Extensions	1976	SIGMOD	0.00011235211
1,391	CONVERT: A High Level Translation Definition Language for Data Conversion	1975	SIGMOD	0.00010939268

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