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Visual Specification of Complex Database Actions

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East/West Database Workshop

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The paper presents an approach to specify in an integrated way by visual, diagrammatic languages the structural and behavioural aspects of database applications. Hereby, well-known extended Entity-Relationship diagrams are employed to specify the structural aspects. The behavioural aspects of a database application are specified by using ViAL (Visual Action Language). ViAL specifications are a special kind of data (or better object) flow diagrams, where so-called elementary actions are used as basic building blocks. These elementary actions are automatically derived from a given EER diagram. They guarantee that after finishing their execution all inherent integrity constraints are fulfilled. The paper explains the features of the language ViAL and gives some illustrating examples.

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  1. Dept. of Computer Science, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9512, NL-2300, RA Leiden, The Netherlands

    Gregor Engels

  2. Quantum GmbH, Emil-Figge-Straße 83, D-44227, Dortmund, Germany

    Perdita Löhr

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  1. Institut für Informatik, Universität Klagenfurt, Universitätsstrasse 65, A-9020, Klagenfurt, Austria

    Johann Eder

  2. Institute for Problems of Informatics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vavilov Street, 30/6, 117900, Moscow, v-334, Russian Federation

    Leonid A. Kalinichenko

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Engels, G., Löhr, P. (1995). Visual Specification of Complex Database Actions. In: Eder, J., Kalinichenko, L.A. (eds) East/West Database Workshop. Workshops in Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3577-7_22

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