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Wcrl: A data model independent language for database systems

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The need for data model independent languages for database systems has become apparent in recent years. They can be used for the conceptual level of a database system, for communication in a distributed database system, for data restructuring, and so on. This paper proposes a language,wcrl, to fill this need and compares it with the very few other languages which have been developed almost concurrently to fill the same need.

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University, L8S 4L7, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

    Sudhir K. Arora

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    K. C. Smith

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Arora, S.K., Smith, K.C. Wcrl: A data model independent language for database systems. International Journal of Computer and Information Sciences 9, 287–305 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00978162

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