An Operational Approach To Data Bases

Summary: Model-independent, operational framework treating database updates as the primitive concept. Defines views as sets of updates (operational views) rather than mapping functions, enabling a uniform analysis of view/update semantics and related DB problems. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 629
Venue: PODS
Year: 1982
Pagerank: 6.9277878e-05
Overall Rank: 4,068 | 72.10%
DOI: 10.1145/588111.588147

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Authors

1. N. Spyratos (INRIA)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{spyratos_pods82,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '82},
        title = {{AN OPERATIONAL APPROACH TO DATA BASES}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/588111.588147},
        doi = {10.1145/588111.588147},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Spyratos, N.},
        year = {1982}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,894	The Size of Projections of Relations Satisfying a Functional Dependency	1982	VLDB	7.9838534e-05
6,085	Dynamic Constraints And Database Evolution	1983	PODS	5.9820991e-05
9,706	Understanding the implications of view update policies	1985	VLDB	5.2351259e-05
14,504	Information Theoretic Aspects Of Data Bases	1983	PODS	-

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank

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