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An interactive business definition system

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Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Very high level languages

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https://doi.org/10.1145/800233.807042

Published: 28 March 1974 Publication History

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This paper presents a structured approach for describing business applications and a programming language that embodies the approach. This language provides business oriented building blocks for formally specifying the applications. The language is the nucleus of a Business Definition System in which users define their problems by interacting with application models in a question-answer mode.

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Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Very high level languages

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 9, Issue 4
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