PRISM: A Knowledge Based System for Semantic Integrity Specification and Enforcement in Database Systems

Summary: Knowledge-based approach for semantic integrity across models in database applications. Explicit constraints govern object behavior; user goals become conjectures proven by PRISM's inference engine, via a compact constraint language and implementation. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h25e29a62c9414cf6
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1984
Pagerank: 7.1506476e-05
Overall Rank: 3,628 | 75.61%
DOI: 10.1145/602259.602299

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Allan Shepherd (Hewlett Packard Enterprise; University of South Carolina)
2. Larry Kerschberg (University of South Carolina)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{shepherd_sigmod84,
        title = {{PRISM: A Knowledge Based System for Semantic Integrity Specification and Enforcement in Database Systems}},
        author = {Shepherd, Allan and Kerschberg, Larry},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '84},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/602259.602299},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/602259.602299},
        year = {1984}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,372	Deriving Production Rules for Constraint Maintenance	1990	VLDB	0.00010898439
2,640	Knowledge-based Integrity Constraint Validation	1986	VLDB	8.1805168e-05
3,037	Monitoring Database Objects	1989	VLDB	7.7313318e-05
5,692	A Parallel Processing Strategy for Evaluating Recursive Queries	1986	VLDB	6.0355337e-05
13,488	A Rule-Based Object/Task Modelling Approach	1986	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-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
10	Extending the Data Base Relational Model to Capture More Meaning	1979	SIGMOD	0.00075944947
16	The Functional Data Model and the Data Language DAPLEX	1979	SIGMOD	0.00059996338
144	A Language Facility for Designing Interactive Database-Intensive Applications	1978	SIGMOD	0.00029097107

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