A Language Facility for Designing Interactive Database-Intensive Applications

Summary: TAXIS: a language for interactive, DB-intensive apps unifying RDB facilities with semantic constraints and exception handling. Encodes behavior and constraints via class, property, and ISA; examples: credit checks, registration, airline reservations. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hd9c6f154b5102ccd
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1978
Pagerank: 0.00029097107
Overall Rank: 144 | 99.04%
DOI: 10.1145/509252.509262

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Authors

1. John Mylopoulos (Harvard University; University of Toronto)
2. Philip A. Bernstein (Harvard University)
3. Harry K. T. Wong (Harvard University; University of Toronto)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{mylopoulos_sigmod78,
        title = {{A Language Facility for Designing Interactive Database-Intensive Applications}},
        author = {Mylopoulos, John and Bernstein, Philip A. and Wong, Harry K. T.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '78},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/509252.509262},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/509252.509262},
        year = {1978}
}

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150	Making Smalltalk a Database System	1984	SIGMOD	0.00028930192
413	Querying Object-Oriented Databases	1992	SIGMOD	0.00018681401
425	Relative Information Capacity of Simple Relational Database Schemata	1984	PODS	0.00018486061
434	The Format Model: A Theory of Database Organization (extended abstract)	1982	PODS	0.00018328281
610	Active Databases as a Paradigm for Enhanced Computing Environments	1983	VLDB	0.0001558453
698	A Data Model and Query Language for EXODUS	1988	SIGMOD	0.00014687325
1,143	The POSTGRES Data Model	1987	VLDB	0.00011847554
1,767	A Transaction Language Complete for Database Update and Specification	1987	PODS	9.6939822e-05
2,539	ISIS: Interface for a Semantic Information System	1985	SIGMOD	8.3274883e-05
2,637	Optimizing Queries on Files	1994	SIGMOD	8.1877616e-05
2,941	Constraint Equations: Declarative Expression of Constraints With Automatic Enforcement	1984	VLDB	7.8321091e-05
2,976	An Implementation of GEM — supporting a semantic data model on a relational back-end.	1984	SIGMOD	7.7903145e-05
2,992	Design and Implementation of an Extensible Database Management System Supporting User Defined Data Types and Functions	1988	VLDB	7.7729638e-05
3,218	Mapping a Semantic Database Model to the Relational Model	1987	SIGMOD	7.5212385e-05
3,294	Implementation of a Compiler for a Semantic Data Model: Experiences with Taxis	1987	SIGMOD	7.4487512e-05
3,355	An Object-Oriented Approach to Multimedia Databases	1986	SIGMOD	7.3861841e-05
3,628	PRISM: A Knowledge Based System for Semantic Integrity Specification and Enforcement in Database Systems	1984	SIGMOD	7.1506476e-05
3,715	IFO: A Formal Semantic Database Model (Preliminary Report)	1984	PODS	7.0750576e-05
3,732	Database Design Tools: An Expert System Approach	1985	VLDB	7.0674932e-05
4,016	Database Programming Languages: A Functional Approach	1991	SIGMOD	6.8528977e-05
4,083	Type Systems for Querying Class Hierarchies with Non-strict Inheritance.	1989	PODS	6.8174846e-05
4,104	Inheritance and Persistence in Database Programming Languages	1986	SIGMOD	6.8054313e-05
4,227	Object-Oriented Specification of Databases: An Algebraic Approach	1987	VLDB	6.7166275e-05
5,082	Transactions And Integrity Constraints	1985	PODS	6.2847136e-05
5,204	A General Model for Version Management in Databases	1986	VLDB	6.2301018e-05
5,369	Dynamic Constraints and Object Migration	1991	VLDB	6.1585727e-05
6,373	SIM: A Database System Based on the Semantic Data Model	1988	SIGMOD	5.8092399e-05
7,227	Derived Data Update in Semantic Databases	1989	VLDB	5.5809592e-05
7,766	Deciding Properties of Transactional Schemas	1986	PODS	5.4559822e-05
8,468	Dynamic Derivation of Personalized Views	1988	VLDB	5.3350162e-05
13,333	Materialization: a powerful and ubiquitous abstraction pattern	1994	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
13,399	K: A High-level Knowledge Base Programming Language for Advanced Database Applications	1991	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
13,415	Database Application Development as an Object Modeling Activity	1990	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
13,447	Managing Knowledge about Information System Evolution	1988	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
13,545	A Modularization Mechanism for Conceptual Modeling	1983	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
13,547	A Data Modeling Approach to Simplify the Design of User Interfaces	1983	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank

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