A Lightweight Model for End Users´ Data: Progress and Future Work

This research enable end users to create reusable new abstractions for data categories, thereby enabling them to automate these and other tasks by creating programs. "Tope," the Greek word for "place," is the name for such an abstraction in this research, since each abstraction corresponds to a data category that has a natural place in the problem domain (unlike float and int). For example, US phone number would be a tope.Each tope implementation is a small package of executable software functions for recognizing, transforming, and equivalence-testing instances of a data category. The data model underlying a tope is a directed graph. Each graph node corresponds to a format, and each edge corresponds to a transformation between formats.