K: A High-level Knowledge Base Programming Language for Advanced Database Applications

Summary: K: high-level knowledge base language for computation, and for defining, querying, manipulating data in nontraditional domains. Key innovations: extensible OO semantic association model; modularization; knowledge retrieval; multi-paradigm constructs (parallel, nondeterministic, rule-based). (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2542
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1991
Pagerank: 4.1945683e-05
Overall Rank: 12,914 | 10.16%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Yuh-Ming Shyy
2. Stanley Y.W. Su

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
14,154	OSAM*.KBMS: An Object-oriented Knowledge Base Management System for Supporting Advanced Applications	1993	SIGMOD	-

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
12	The Functional Data Model and the Data Language DAPLEX	1979	SIGMOD	0.0011248121
85	Making Smalltalk a Database System	1984	SIGMOD	0.00053428612
96	A Language Facility for Designing Interactive Database-Intensive Applications	1978	SIGMOD	0.00050819255
162	Some High-level Language Constructs for Data of Type Relation	1977	SIGMOD	0.00039758372
755	Programming Constructs for Database System Implementation in EXODUS	1987	SIGMOD	0.00017096714
1,437	A Data Management Extension Architecture	1987	SIGMOD	0.00011981662
1,468	ODE (Object Database and Environment): The Language and the Data Model	1989	SIGMOD	0.00011846499
1,496	DIAL: A Programming Language for Data Intensive Applications	1980	SIGMOD	0.00011688662
4,811	OQL: A Query Language for Manipulating Object-oriented Databases	1989	VLDB	5.9061974e-05
5,223	A Temporal Evolutionary Object-Oriented Data Model and Its Query Language for Medical Image Management	1992	VLDB	5.6205011e-05

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