The functional data model and a dataflow style of query processing

Author

Golshani, Forouzan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ, USA

fYear

1990

Firstpage

45

Lastpage

52

Abstract

Dataflow is a method for parallel computation in which the elementary operations of the computer are activated by the flow of data. Computation is carried out in some autonomous processors which are connected to each other by some communication lines. The author shows how this model of computation can lead to interesting ideas in the management of knowledge bases. Each of the processors in the system is seen as a database machine which makes use of the modern sophisticated storage devices. Thus parallelism is gained both at the storage level (as is customary in database literature) and in the overall computation process

Keywords

database management systems; information retrieval systems; knowledge based systems; parallel processing; autonomous processors; communication lines; database machine; dataflow style; elementary operations; functional data model; knowledge bases; modern sophisticated storage devices; overall computation process; parallel computation; parallelism; query processing; storage level; Computational modeling; Computer networks; Concurrent computing; Data flow computing; Data models; Database machines; Knowledge management; Object oriented modeling; Parallel processing; Query processing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Applied Computing, 1990., Proceedings of the 1990 Symposium on

Conference_Location

Fayetteville, AR

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2031-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SOAC.1990.82139

Filename

82139