A Form Application Development System

Summary: FADS: interactive Form App Development for database forms; integrates direct relational DB access, standard UI, built-in form constructs, and an IDE. Unique: suppresses details, auto-fills defaults, enabling fast, modifiable multi-user forms. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2227
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1982
Pagerank: 7.6587135e-05
Overall Rank: 3,183 | 78.17%
DOI: 10.1145/582353.582359

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Lawrence A. Rowe (University of California Berkeley)
2. Kurt A. Shoens (University of California Berkeley)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{rowe_sigmod82,
        title = {{A Form Application Development System}},
        author = {Rowe, Lawrence A. and Shoens, Kurt A.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '82},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/582353.582359},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/582353.582359},
        year = {1982}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
703	TIMBER: A Sophisticated Relation Browser	1982	VLDB	0.0001485124
2,380	OdeView: The Graphical Interface to Ode	1990	SIGMOD	8.6609083e-05
3,138	"Fill-in-the-Form" Programming	1985	VLDB	7.7191822e-05
8,565	Freeform: A User-Adaptable Form Management System	1987	VLDB	5.4119882e-05
13,161	Management of Complex Objects as Dynamic Forms	1988	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,288	FORM OPERATION BY EXAMPLE -- a Language for Office Information Processing	1981	SIGMOD	0.00011317845

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