"Fill-in-the-Form" Programming

Summary: Fill-in-the-form programming for interactive database applications. Unifies app logic and UI via a shared form/menu interface; high-level tools define interfaces for queries/updates and for reports/graphs; experiences from two systems. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 7910
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1985
Pagerank: 7.7191822e-05
Overall Rank: 3,138 | 78.48%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Lawrence A. Rowe (University of California)

BibTeX Citation

@article{rowe_vldb85,
        title = {{"Fill-in-the-Form" Programming}},
        author = {Rowe, Lawrence A.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '85},
        pages = {334},
        year = {1985}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
34	The Design Of Postgres	1986	SIGMOD	0.00049302774
2,210	PESTO: An Integrated Query/Browser for Object Databases	1996	VLDB	8.9427694e-05
3,995	The Multimedia Object Presentation Manager of MINOS: A Symmetric Approach	1986	SIGMOD	6.9682566e-05
6,536	Interactive Query Formulation over Web Service-Accessed Sources	2006	SIGMOD	5.8486657e-05
8,565	Freeform: A User-Adaptable Form Management System	1987	VLDB	5.4119882e-05
13,012	OPOSSUM: Desk-Top Schema Management through Customizable Visualization	1995	VLDB	5.093636e-05
13,161	Management of Complex Objects as Dynamic Forms	1988	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
81	Implementation of Integrity Constraints and Views by Query Modification	1975	SIGMOD	0.00036443459
703	TIMBER: A Sophisticated Relation Browser	1982	VLDB	0.0001485124
3,183	A Form Application Development System	1982	SIGMOD	7.6587135e-05

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