ALCHEMIST/spl minus/an object-oriented tool to build transformations between heterogeneous data representations

Author

Tirri, Henry ; Lindén, Greger

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Helsinki Univ., Finland

Volume

2

fYear

1994

fDate

4-7 Jan. 1994

Firstpage

226

Lastpage

235

Abstract

ALCHEMIST is a general purpose object-oriented transformation generator. ALCHEMIST provides a new approach to developing transformations between any well-defined representations. It allows users to define the syntactic structure of the data representations and the related structure associations with a grammar notation. These grammars can then be augmented with semantic operations. From this description a persistent object-oriented representation is formed and a transformation module is generated automatically. This transformation module relies on an object representation of the parse tree. The principles underlying ALCHEMIST are discussed and its object-oriented design decisions are described.<>

Keywords

data structures; database management systems; distributed databases; grammars; object-oriented databases; open systems; software tools; ALCHEMIST; data representations; grammar notation; heterogeneous data representations; heterogeneous software platforms; object-oriented tool; open software environments; parse tree; persistent object-oriented representation; syntactic structure; transformation generator;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 1994. Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wailea, HI, USA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-5090-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.1994.323261

Filename

323261