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: 0.00028989663
Overall Rank: 145 | 99.03%
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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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
150	Making Smalltalk a Database System	1984	SIGMOD	0.00028835071
416	Querying Object-Oriented Databases	1992	SIGMOD	0.00018613776
428	Relative Information Capacity of Simple Relational Database Schemata	1984	PODS	0.00018419906
437	The Format Model: A Theory of Database Organization (extended abstract)	1982	PODS	0.00018259668
614	Active Databases as a Paradigm for Enhanced Computing Environments	1983	VLDB	0.00015527367
704	A Data Model and Query Language for EXODUS	1988	SIGMOD	0.00014633243
1,144	The POSTGRES Data Model	1987	VLDB	0.00011804665
1,781	A Transaction Language Complete for Database Update and Specification	1987	PODS	9.657754e-05
2,546	ISIS: Interface for a Semantic Information System	1985	SIGMOD	8.296104e-05
2,646	Optimizing Queries on Files	1994	SIGMOD	8.157239e-05
2,956	Constraint Equations: Declarative Expression of Constraints With Automatic Enforcement	1984	VLDB	7.8031737e-05
2,991	An Implementation of GEM — supporting a semantic data model on a relational back-end.	1984	SIGMOD	7.7609063e-05
3,003	Design and Implementation of an Extensible Database Management System Supporting User Defined Data Types and Functions	1988	VLDB	7.747067e-05
3,230	Mapping a Semantic Database Model to the Relational Model	1987	SIGMOD	7.4931075e-05
3,306	Implementation of a Compiler for a Semantic Data Model: Experiences with Taxis	1987	SIGMOD	7.4207248e-05
3,363	An Object-Oriented Approach to Multimedia Databases	1986	SIGMOD	7.3582785e-05
3,642	PRISM: A Knowledge Based System for Semantic Integrity Specification and Enforcement in Database Systems	1984	SIGMOD	7.1236523e-05
3,723	IFO: A Formal Semantic Database Model (Preliminary Report)	1984	PODS	7.0484146e-05
3,733	Database Design Tools: An Expert System Approach	1985	VLDB	7.0435521e-05
4,033	Database Programming Languages: A Functional Approach	1991	SIGMOD	6.8271085e-05
4,104	Type Systems for Querying Class Hierarchies with Non-strict Inheritance.	1989	PODS	6.7919887e-05
4,124	Inheritance and Persistence in Database Programming Languages	1986	SIGMOD	6.7797683e-05
4,248	Object-Oriented Specification of Databases: An Algebraic Approach	1987	VLDB	6.6912491e-05
5,105	Transactions And Integrity Constraints	1985	PODS	6.2611181e-05
5,229	A General Model for Version Management in Databases	1986	VLDB	6.2065632e-05
5,392	Dynamic Constraints and Object Migration	1991	VLDB	6.1354435e-05
6,387	SIM: A Database System Based on the Semantic Data Model	1988	SIGMOD	5.78729e-05
7,247	Derived Data Update in Semantic Databases	1989	VLDB	5.5598718e-05
7,790	Deciding Properties of Transactional Schemas	1986	PODS	5.4354537e-05
8,492	Dynamic Derivation of Personalized Views	1988	VLDB	5.3148581e-05
13,380	Materialization: a powerful and ubiquitous abstraction pattern	1994	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
13,446	K: A High-level Knowledge Base Programming Language for Advanced Database Applications	1991	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05
13,462	Database Application Development as an Object Modeling Activity	1990	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
13,494	Managing Knowledge about Information System Evolution	1988	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05
13,592	A Modularization Mechanism for Conceptual Modeling	1983	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
13,594	A Data Modeling Approach to Simplify the Design of User Interfaces	1983	VLDB	4.9605343e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank

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