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: 0.00029083502
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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150	Making Smalltalk a Database System	1984	SIGMOD	0.00028917874
414	Querying Object-Oriented Databases	1992	SIGMOD	0.00018672651
426	Relative Information Capacity of Simple Relational Database Schemata	1984	PODS	0.00018477356
434	The Format Model: A Theory of Database Organization (extended abstract)	1982	PODS	0.00018319684
610	Active Databases as a Paradigm for Enhanced Computing Environments	1983	VLDB	0.00015577357
698	A Data Model and Query Language for EXODUS	1988	SIGMOD	0.0001468044
1,143	The POSTGRES Data Model	1987	VLDB	0.00011842018
1,768	A Transaction Language Complete for Database Update and Specification	1987	PODS	9.6894e-05
2,539	ISIS: Interface for a Semantic Information System	1985	SIGMOD	8.3235498e-05
2,637	Optimizing Queries on Files	1994	SIGMOD	8.1840201e-05
2,942	Constraint Equations: Declarative Expression of Constraints With Automatic Enforcement	1984	VLDB	7.8284647e-05
2,979	An Implementation of GEM — supporting a semantic data model on a relational back-end.	1984	SIGMOD	7.7866278e-05
2,993	Design and Implementation of an Extensible Database Management System Supporting User Defined Data Types and Functions	1988	VLDB	7.7693371e-05
3,219	Mapping a Semantic Database Model to the Relational Model	1987	SIGMOD	7.5176838e-05
3,295	Implementation of a Compiler for a Semantic Data Model: Experiences with Taxis	1987	SIGMOD	7.4452378e-05
3,355	An Object-Oriented Approach to Multimedia Databases	1986	SIGMOD	7.3826883e-05
3,629	PRISM: A Knowledge Based System for Semantic Integrity Specification and Enforcement in Database Systems	1984	SIGMOD	7.1472681e-05
3,716	IFO: A Formal Semantic Database Model (Preliminary Report)	1984	PODS	7.0717201e-05
3,734	Database Design Tools: An Expert System Approach	1985	VLDB	7.0641682e-05
4,017	Database Programming Languages: A Functional Approach	1991	SIGMOD	6.8496616e-05
4,084	Type Systems for Querying Class Hierarchies with Non-strict Inheritance.	1989	PODS	6.8142614e-05
4,106	Inheritance and Persistence in Database Programming Languages	1986	SIGMOD	6.8022187e-05
4,227	Object-Oriented Specification of Databases: An Algebraic Approach	1987	VLDB	6.7134479e-05
5,085	Transactions And Integrity Constraints	1985	PODS	6.2817401e-05
5,205	A General Model for Version Management in Databases	1986	VLDB	6.2271525e-05
5,374	Dynamic Constraints and Object Migration	1991	VLDB	6.1556625e-05
6,377	SIM: A Database System Based on the Semantic Data Model	1988	SIGMOD	5.8064898e-05
7,229	Derived Data Update in Semantic Databases	1989	VLDB	5.5783172e-05
7,775	Deciding Properties of Transactional Schemas	1986	PODS	5.4533998e-05
8,477	Dynamic Derivation of Personalized Views	1988	VLDB	5.3324907e-05
13,339	Materialization: a powerful and ubiquitous abstraction pattern	1994	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
13,405	K: A High-level Knowledge Base Programming Language for Advanced Database Applications	1991	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05
13,421	Database Application Development as an Object Modeling Activity	1990	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
13,453	Managing Knowledge about Information System Evolution	1988	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05
13,551	A Modularization Mechanism for Conceptual Modeling	1983	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
13,553	A Data Modeling Approach to Simplify the Design of User Interfaces	1983	VLDB	4.9769913e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank

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1	5,085	Transactions And Integrity Constraints	1985	PODS
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3	13,551	A Modularization Mechanism for Conceptual Modeling	1983	VLDB
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