Managing Change in a Computer-Aided Design Database

Summary: Proposes embedding change semantics in a CAD database using object-oriented concepts to automate propagation of design changes. Introduces mechanisms: group check-in/out, browser contexts and paths, configuration constraints, and rules to limit scope and identify targets for automatic change. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8019
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1987
Pagerank: 6.1403192e-05
Overall Rank: 5,636 | 61.34%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. R. H. Katz (University of California Berkeley)
2. E. Chang (University of California Berkeley)

BibTeX Citation

@article{katz_vldb87,
        title = {{Managing Change in a Computer-Aided Design Database}},
        author = {Katz, R. H. and Chang, E.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '87},
        pages = {455},
        year = {1987}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
837	Exploiting Inheritance and Structure Semantics for Effective Clustering and Buffering in an Object-Oriented DBMS	1989	SIGMOD	0.0001370733
6,337	Management of Schema Evolution in Databases	1991	VLDB	5.9088067e-05
7,535	Consistency of Versions in Object-Oriented Databases	1990	VLDB	5.6029996e-05
9,037	On Correctly Configuring Versioned Objects	1989	VLDB	5.3270943e-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
1,191	Version Modeling Concepts for Computer-Aided Design Databases	1986	SIGMOD	0.00011741398
1,408	A Unifying Framework for Version Control in a CAD Environment	1986	VLDB	0.00010855344
4,315	Consistency and Transactions in CAD Database	1982	VLDB	6.7657879e-05

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