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A Methodology of Application Program Analysis and Conversion Based on Database Semantics.

Stanley Y. W. Su, B. J. Liu: A Methodology of Application Program Analysis and Conversion Based on Database Semantics. SIGMOD Conference 1977: 75-87
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  author    = {Stanley Y. W. Su and
               B. J. Liu},
  editor    = {Diane C. P. Smith},
  title     = {A Methodology of Application Program Analysis and Conversion
               Based on Database Semantics},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1977 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on
               Management of Data, Toronto, Canada, August 3-5, 1977},
  publisher = {ACM},
  year      = {1977},
  pages     = {75-87},
  ee        = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/509404.509417, db/conf/sigmod/SuL77.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/sigmod/77},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}
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Abstract

This research studies the effects of 1) association changes in database semantics, 2) file composition and decomposition, and 3) the conversion of one DBMS toanother to the application programs. A methodology of application program analysis and conversion based on database semantics is proposed. The semantics of both the source and target databases are described in terms of entity types and their associations. The semantics of application programs is represented by an "application structure" of language sequences which correspond to a number of access path graphs representing the general access patterns associated with entity types and their associations. Program conversion is achieved by meaning-preserving transfomations of the access path graphs to account for the various typesof database changes.

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Referenced by

  1. Randy H. Katz, Eugene Wong: Decompiling CODASYL DML into Relational Queries. ACM Trans. Database Syst. 7(1): 1-23(1982)
  2. Stanley Y. W. Su, Herman Lam, Der Her Lo: Transformation of Data Traversals and Operations in Application Programs to Account for Semantic Changes of Databases. ACM Trans. Database Syst. 6(2): 255-294(1981)
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  5. J. Nations, Stanley Y. W. Su: Some DML Instruction Sequences for Application Program Analysis and Conversion. SIGMOD Conference 1978: 120-131
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