A Language Facility for Designing Interactive Database-Intensive Applications

Summary: TAXIS: a language for interactive, DB-intensive apps unifying RDB facilities with semantic constraints and exception handling. Encodes behavior and constraints via class, property, and ISA; examples: credit checks, registration, airline reservations. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2130
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1978
Pagerank: 0.00029742792
Overall Rank: 139 | 99.05%
DOI: 10.1145/509252.509262

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Authors

1. John Mylopoulos (Harvard University; University of Toronto)
2. Philip A. Bernstein (Harvard University)
3. Harry K. T. Wong (Harvard University; University of Toronto)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{mylopoulos_sigmod78,
        title = {{A Language Facility for Designing Interactive Database-Intensive Applications}},
        author = {Mylopoulos, John and Bernstein, Philip A. and Wong, Harry K. T.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '78},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/509252.509262},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/509252.509262},
        year = {1978}
}

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
147	Making Smalltalk a Database System	1984	SIGMOD	0.00029474235
403	Querying Object-Oriented Databases	1992	SIGMOD	0.0001907249
413	Relative Information Capacity of Simple Relational Database Schemata	1984	PODS	0.00018894294
421	The Format Model: A Theory of Database Organization (extended abstract)	1982	PODS	0.00018742219
598	Active Databases as a Paradigm for Enhanced Computing Environments	1983	VLDB	0.00015910777
684	A Data Model and Query Language for EXODUS	1988	SIGMOD	0.00014990873
1,118	The POSTGRES Data Model	1987	VLDB	0.00012104924
1,726	A Transaction Language Complete for Database Update and Specification	1987	PODS	9.9156202e-05
2,483	ISIS: Interface for a Semantic Information System	1985	SIGMOD	8.5177061e-05
2,588	Optimizing Queries on Files	1994	SIGMOD	8.3742403e-05
2,879	Constraint Equations: Declarative Expression of Constraints With Automatic Enforcement	1984	VLDB	8.0056121e-05
2,912	An Implementation of GEM — supporting a semantic data model on a relational back-end.	1984	SIGMOD	7.9688007e-05
2,971	Design and Implementation of an Extensible Database Management System Supporting User Defined Data Types and Functions	1988	VLDB	7.9120946e-05
3,156	Mapping a Semantic Database Model to the Relational Model	1987	SIGMOD	7.693414e-05
3,233	Implementation of a Compiler for a Semantic Data Model: Experiences with Taxis	1987	SIGMOD	7.6174587e-05
3,289	An Object-Oriented Approach to Multimedia Databases	1986	SIGMOD	7.5556715e-05
3,554	PRISM: A Knowledge Based System for Semantic Integrity Specification and Enforcement in Database Systems	1984	SIGMOD	7.3140788e-05
3,633	IFO: A Formal Semantic Database Model (Preliminary Report)	1984	PODS	7.2366114e-05
3,652	Database Design Tools: An Expert System Approach	1985	VLDB	7.2249552e-05
3,932	Database Programming Languages: A Functional Approach	1991	SIGMOD	7.0089831e-05
3,986	Type Systems for Querying Class Hierarchies with Non-strict Inheritance.	1989	PODS	6.9736679e-05
4,010	Inheritance and Persistence in Database Programming Languages	1986	SIGMOD	6.9610816e-05
4,149	Object-Oriented Specification of Databases: An Algebraic Approach	1987	VLDB	6.8707895e-05
4,962	Transactions And Integrity Constraints	1985	PODS	6.4273819e-05
5,076	A General Model for Version Management in Databases	1986	VLDB	6.3730854e-05
5,251	Dynamic Constraints and Object Migration	1991	VLDB	6.298984e-05
6,243	SIM: A Database System Based on the Semantic Data Model	1988	SIGMOD	5.9425753e-05
7,080	Derived Data Update in Semantic Databases	1989	VLDB	5.709055e-05
7,615	Deciding Properties of Transactional Schemas	1986	PODS	5.5811446e-05
8,300	Dynamic Derivation of Personalized Views	1988	VLDB	5.4574671e-05
13,043	Materialization: a powerful and ubiquitous abstraction pattern	1994	VLDB	5.093636e-05
13,109	K: A High-level Knowledge Base Programming Language for Advanced Database Applications	1991	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
13,125	Database Application Development as an Object Modeling Activity	1990	VLDB	5.093636e-05
13,157	Managing Knowledge about Information System Evolution	1988	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
13,255	A Modularization Mechanism for Conceptual Modeling	1983	VLDB	5.093636e-05
13,257	A Data Modeling Approach to Simplify the Design of User Interfaces	1983	VLDB	5.093636e-05

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3	13,255	A Modularization Mechanism for Conceptual Modeling	1983	VLDB
4	3,652	Database Design Tools: An Expert System Approach	1985	VLDB
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9	14,537	An Interactive Query Language for External Data Bases	1982	VLDB
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