DIAL: A Programming Language for Data Intensive Applications
Summary: Problem-oriented, high-level language unifying database primitives and computation for data-intensive apps. Emphasizes schema-driven semantics via the SDM model, with controllers and dialogue facilities to express concurrency; validated on purchasing and job-shop scheduling. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Michael Hammer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 2. Brian Berkowitz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{hammer_sigmod80,
title = {{DIAL: A Programming Language for Data Intensive Applications}},
author = {Hammer, Michael and Berkowitz, Brian},
series = {{SIGMOD} '80},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/582250.582263},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/582250.582263},
year = {1980}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2,312 | On the Algebraic Specification of Databases | 1982 | VLDB | 8.6557402e-05 |
| 13,399 | K: A High-level Knowledge Base Programming Language for Advanced Database Applications | 1991 | SIGMOD | 4.9793485e-05 |
| 13,545 | A Modularization Mechanism for Conceptual Modeling | 1983 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 263 | Some High-level Language Constructs for Data of Type Relation | 1977 | SIGMOD | 0.00022811354 |
| 772 | Data Abstraction, Views And Updates In Rigel | 1979 | SIGMOD | 0.00014085842 |
| 847 | The Semantic Data Model: A Modelling Mechanism for Data Base Applications | 1978 | SIGMOD | 0.00013507676 |
| 1,104 | The Data Management Facilities of PLAIN | 1979 | SIGMOD | 0.00012003564 |
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