A Desktop Experiment Management Environment

Summary of New Features in Release 1.1

• Schema Modification
• IndexSet, Sequence-Set Query and Data Manipulation
• Aggregate Queries (Count, Max, Min, Avg, Sum)
• Nested Queries
• Text type (arbitrary long string)

Supported Features in Release 1.1

• Horse
  • Schema Management
    • Creation of the following kinds of classes:
      • Tuple
      • Set
      • Index-Set
      • Sequenced-Set
    • Creation of the following primitive classes:
      • Integer
      • Real
      • String
      • Boolean
      • Datetime
      • Text (Arbitrary long string, not supported in version 1.0.)
    • Creation of the following kinds of relationships:
      • Has-part
      • Association
      • Set-of
      • Indexed-By
    • Specification of derivation rules
    • Specification of inheritance
    • Schema integrity checking
    • Schema Modification (Not supported in version 1.0.)
      • Create or Delete Class
      • Create, Delete, or Rename Relationship
  • Fox Queries
    • Retrieval and manipulation of objects in the following kinds of classes:
      • Tuple
      • Set
      • Index-Set (Not supported in version 1.0)
      • Sequenced-Set (Not supported in version 1.0)
      • All primitive classes
    • Retrieval of whole object trees
    • Multiple iterator queries
    • Complex path expresssions, possibly including reverse relationships
    • Qualifications with arbitrary comparisons of objects in same class
    • Object naming
    • Aggregates of the following kinds:(Not supported in version 1.0)
      • Minimum
      • Maximum
      • Sum
      • Count
      • Average
    • Nested Query (Not supported in version 1.0)
  • Fox Updates
    • Insertion of objects of all kinds of classes and primitives.
    • Logical name assignment to new or old objects
    • Update of primitive and nonprimitive object relationships
    • Three types of updates on multi-valued relationships:
      • Set (=)
      • Add (+=)
      • Remove (-=)
    • Update and deletion of objects based on qualifications
    • Update Index-Set or Sequence-Set using subscript expression (Not supported in version 1.0)
  • Miscellaneous
    • Single-Fox-command transactions
    • Experiement workflow control through derivation rules (similar to triggers)
• Turtle
  • Translation of primitive, Tuple, and Set objects
• EMU
  • Experiment Workflow Management (synchronous)

Please contact zoo@cs.wisc.edu if you any have comments or questions.