An Introduction To DIAM Levels Of Abstraction In Accessing Information

  • Authors:
  • Michael Levin

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ACM '78 Proceedings of the 1978 annual conference
  • Year:
  • 1978

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Abstract

There has been a great deal of interest in information models that are independent of all considerations of implementation. But such models cannot be exploited to their fullest potential without a theory for modeling implementations and the mapping of information models into implementations. DIAM (Data Independent Access Model) is such a theory, describing implementations on several levels of abstraction and the mappings from level to level. This paper is a tutorial which provides the reader with a quick introduction to DIAM by using it to model a textbook example of several implementations of a database. Areas for future research are then suggested.