NSF/Espirit Workshop on Database Programming Languages and Environments

在过去的七年里，人们对数据库编程语言的兴趣与日俱增，这种语言产生了一些工作原型，并影响了例如面向对象数据库的查询语言的设计。这项研究现在呈现出新的方向。它包括数据库编程语言的基础、批量类型和迭代器、类型和数据模型、分布式对象存储、异类数据库、互操作性以及与结构化文本的通信。这项研究的大部分源于美国和欧共体研究人员小组之间的合作，目标是通过一系列联合研讨会来保持这种合作研究，这些研讨会包括数据库编程语言的继续和持久对象存储研讨会，以及关于有限模型理论、数据交换格式和数据映射和匹配的新研讨会。这些讲习班的成果将作为会议记录公布，将提供新的技术，不仅用于查询和整合标准数据库系统，而且还用于查询和整合各种其他结构化数据源，例如用于表示科学数据的数据源。

Over the past seven years there has been an increasing interest in database programming languages that has resulted in a number of working prototypes and has influenced, for example, the design of query languages for object-oriented databases. This research is now taking on new directions. It includes foundations of database programming languages, bulk types and iterators, types and data models, distributed object stores, heterogeneous databases, interoperability and communication with structured text. Much of this research stems from co-operation between groups of researchers in the US and EC, and the objective is to maintain this cooperative research through a series of joint workshops that include the continuation of the Database Programming Language and Persistent Object Store workshops as well as new workshops on Finite Model theory, Data Exchange Formats, and Data Mapping and Matching. The results of these workshops, which will be published as conference proceedings, will provide new techniques for querying and and integrating not only standard database systems but also the wide variety of oth er structured data sources that are used, for example, for the representation of scientific data.