A language facility for designing interactive database-intensive applications

Authors:
John Mylopoulos;Philip A. Bernstein;Harry K. T. Wong
Affiliations:
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA;Harvard University, Cambridge, MA;Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Venue:
SIGMOD '78 Proceedings of the 1978 ACM SIGMOD international conference on management of data
Year:
1978

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Abstract

This paper describes TAXIS, a language for the design of Interactive Information Systems (e.g., credit card varification, student-course registration and airline reservations). TAXIS offers (relational) database management facilities, a means of specifying semantic integrity constraints and an exception-handling mechanism, integrated into a single language through the concepts of class, property and the ISA (generalization) relationship. The paper includes a description of the main constructs of TAXIS and illustrates their usefulness with examples.