Implementation of a Compiler for a Semantic Data Model: Experiences with Taxis

Summary: Compiler for the Taxis data model, an entity-based DSL enabling generalisation, classification and aggregation. Examines scalable entity representation, static type checking, and ISA hierarchies of transactions, with multiple inheritance and metaclasses. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h0a7684e5187c5a45
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1987
Pagerank: 7.4207248e-05
Overall Rank: 3,306 | 77.85%
DOI: 10.1145/38713.38731

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Brian Nixon (University of Toronto)
2. Lawrence Chung (University of Toronto)
3. David Lauzon (University of Toronto)
4. Alex Borgida (Rutgers University)
5. John Mylopoulos (Canadian Institute for Advanced Research; University of Toronto)
6. Martin Stanley (University of Toronto)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{nixon_sigmod87,
        title = {{Implementation of a Compiler for a Semantic Data Model: Experiences with Taxis}},
        author = {Nixon, Brian and Chung, Lawrence and Lauzon, David and Borgida, Alex and Mylopoulos, John and Stanley, Martin},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '87},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/38713.38731},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/38713.38731},
        year = {1987}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
704	A Data Model and Query Language for EXODUS	1988	SIGMOD	0.00014633243
763	O2, an Object-Oriented Data Model	1988	SIGMOD	0.00014111102
1,697	ODE (Object Database and Environment): The Language and the Data Model	1989	SIGMOD	9.8264533e-05
4,453	Modeling Class Hierarchies with Contradictions	1988	SIGMOD	6.5774986e-05
6,930	O-O, What Have They Done to DB2?	1999	VLDB	5.6273063e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10	Extending the Data Base Relational Model to Capture More Meaning	1979	SIGMOD	0.00075677079
16	The Functional Data Model and the Data Language DAPLEX	1979	SIGMOD	0.00059778867
34	The Design Of Postgres	1986	SIGMOD	0.00049063803
97	The Database Language GEM	1983	SIGMOD	0.00034172656
145	A Language Facility for Designing Interactive Database-Intensive Applications	1978	SIGMOD	0.00028989663
265	Some High-level Language Constructs for Data of Type Relation	1977	SIGMOD	0.00022728909
1,492	Storage and Access Structures to Support a Semantic Data Model	1982	VLDB	0.00010475268
2,991	An Implementation of GEM — supporting a semantic data model on a relational back-end.	1984	SIGMOD	7.7609063e-05

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