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Group C: Languages, Data Models and
Application Models
Mission Statement
To provide a framework for research in database query languages and models, where models are construed in both the mathematical sense and in the broader sense of how people work within an application model.
Discussion – What is needed beyond object-relational?
Visual Languages: documents don't type
Workflow: queries on process control
Constraints: time, space, backwards reasoning
Metalanguage: for metadata
Priorities
Is there a sufficient set of languages?
Glue to go from one language to another.
Techniques for language construction.
Expressive
Intuitive
Efficient | 
