DIAL: A Programming Language for Data Intensive Applications

Summary: Problem-oriented, high-level language unifying database primitives and computation for data-intensive apps. Emphasizes schema-driven semantics via the SDM model, with controllers and dialogue facilities to express concurrency; validated on purchasing and job-shop scheduling. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2184
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1980
Pagerank: 7.1646777e-05
Overall Rank: 3,735 | 74.38%
DOI: 10.1145/582250.582263

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Michael Hammer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
2. Brian Berkowitz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{hammer_sigmod80,
        title = {{DIAL: A Programming Language for Data Intensive Applications}},
        author = {Hammer, Michael and Berkowitz, Brian},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '80},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/582250.582263},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/582250.582263},
        year = {1980}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,258	On the Algebraic Specification of Databases	1982	VLDB	8.8540903e-05
13,109	K: A High-level Knowledge Base Programming Language for Advanced Database Applications	1991	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
13,255	A Modularization Mechanism for Conceptual Modeling	1983	VLDB	5.093636e-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
247	Some High-level Language Constructs for Data of Type Relation	1977	SIGMOD	0.00023302214
750	Data Abstraction, Views And Updates In Rigel	1979	SIGMOD	0.00014379744
824	The Semantic Data Model: A Modelling Mechanism for Data Base Applications	1978	SIGMOD	0.00013791986
1,078	The Data Management Facilities of PLAIN	1979	SIGMOD	0.00012263786

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