IDA: An Intelligent Data Access Program.
Daniel Sagalowicz:
IDA: An Intelligent Data Access Program.
VLDB 1977: 293-302@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/vldb/Sagalowicz77,
author = {Daniel Sagalowicz},
title = {IDA: An Intelligent Data Access Program},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Very Large
Data Bases, October 6-8, 1977, Tokyo, Japan},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
year = {1977},
pages = {293-302},
ee = {db/conf/vldb/Sagalowicz77.html},
crossref = {DBLP:conf/vldb/77},
bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}
Abstract
IDA was developed to allow a casual user to retrieve information from a data base, knowing the
fields present in the data base, but not how they are
distributed to the files. IDA is part of the LADDER
System that accepts queries in a restricted subset of
English about a data base stored on CCA's Datacomputer.
IDA's input is a very simple, formal query language
which is essentially a list of restrictions on fields
and queries about fields, with no mention of the
structure of the data base. It produces a series of
DBMS queries, which are transmitted over the ARPA
network. The results of these queries are combined by
IDA to provide the answer to the user's query. In this
paper, we define the input language, and give examples
of IDA's behavior. We also present our representation
of the "structural schema," which is the information
needed by IDA to know how the data base is actually
organized. We give the heuristics used to produce a
program in the language of the DBMS. Finally, we
discuss the limitations of this approach, as well as
future research areas.
Copyright © 1977 by The Institute of
Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc. (IEEE).
Abstract used with permission.
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Contents 
References
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- E. F. Codd:
Seven Steps to Rendezvous with the Casual User.
IFIP Working Conference Data Base Management 1974: 179-200
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- Nick Roussopoulos, John Mylopoulos:
Using Semantic Networks for Database Management.
VLDB 1975: 144-172
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- C. Robert Carlson, Robert S. Kaplan:
A Generalized Access Path Model and its Application to a Relational Data Base System.
SIGMOD Conference 1976: 143-154
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- Gary G. Hendrix, Earl D. Sacerdoti, Daniel Sagalowicz, Jonathan Slocum:
Developing a Natural Language Interface to Complex Data.
VLDB 1977: 292
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- Michael Stonebraker:
Implementation of Integrity Constraints and Views by Query Modification.
SIGMOD Conference 1975: 65-78
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- Michael Hammer, Arvola Chan:
Index Selection in a Self-Adaptive Data Base Management System.
SIGMOD Conference 1976: 1-8
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- E. Nahouraii, L. O. Brooks, Alfonso F. Cardenas:
An Approach to Data Communication between Different Generalized Data Base Management Systems.
VLDB 1976: 117-142
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Referenced by
- Matthias Jarke, Jürgen Koch:
Query Optimization in Database Systems.
ACM Comput. Surv. 16(2): 111-152(1984)
- Jonathan J. King:
QUIST: A System for Semantic Query Optimization in Relational Databases.
VLDB 1981: 510-517
- Ramez Elmasri, Gio Wiederhold:
GORDAS: A Formal High-Level Query Language for the Entity-Relationship Model.
ER 1981: 49-72
- Tore Risch:
Production Program Generation in a Flexible Data Dictionary System.
VLDB 1980: 343-349
- Gio Wiederhold, Ramez Elmasri:
The Structural Model for Database Design.
ER 1979: 237-258
- Gary G. Hendrix, Earl D. Sacerdoti, Daniel Sagalowicz, Jonathan Slocum:
Developing a Natural Language Interface to Complex Data.
ACM Trans. Database Syst. 3(2): 105-147(1978)
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