Specification-Based Computing Environments

Summary: Advocates specification languages, rather than programming languages, as the foundation for future computing environments. Identifies environment capabilities that could let users express intent and derive substantially more benefit from computation. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 7750
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1982
Pagerank: 7.6854151e-05
Overall Rank: 3,159 | 78.33%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. R. Balzer (Information Sciences Institute)
2. D. Dyer (Information Sciences Institute)
3. M. Fehling (Information Sciences Institute)
4. S. Saunders (Information Sciences Institute)

BibTeX Citation

@article{balzer_vldb82,
        title = {{Specification-Based Computing Environments}},
        author = {Balzer, R. and Dyer, D. and Fehling, M. and Saunders, S.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '82},
        pages = {273},
        year = {1982}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
598	Active Databases as a Paradigm for Enhanced Computing Environments	1983	VLDB	0.00015910777
2,879	Constraint Equations: Declarative Expression of Constraints With Automatic Enforcement	1984	VLDB	8.0056121e-05

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