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PADS Documentation

User's Manual

Research Papers

The Pads Project: An Overview. Kathleen Fisher and David Walker Invited Paper, International Conference on Database Theory, March 2011.
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Forest: A Language and Toolkit for Programming with Filestores. Kathleen Fisher, Nate Foster, David Walker, and Kenny Q. Zhu. Princeton Technical Report TR-889-10, December 2010.
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The Next 700 Data Description Languages. Kathleen Fisher, Yitzhak Mandelbaum, David Walker. Journal of the ACM, Volumne 57 Issue 2, January 2010.
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Incremental Learning of System Log Formats. Kenny Q. Zhu, Kathleen Fisher, and David Walker. WASL, October 2009. Workshop proceedings reprinted in SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, Volume 44 Issue 1, January 2010.
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Ad Hoc Data and the Token Ambiguity Problem. Qian Xi, Kathleen Fisher, David Walker, and Kenny Q. Zhu. PADL, January 2009.
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LearnPADS: Automatic Tool Generation from Ad Hoc Data. Kathleen Fisher, David Walker, and Kenny Zhu. SIGMOD, June 2008.
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From Dirt to Shovels: Fully Automatic Tool Generation from Ad Hoc Data. Kathleen Fisher, David Walker, Kenny Q. Zhu, and Peter White POPL, January 2008.
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A Generic Programming Toolkit for PADS/ML: First-Class Upgrades for Third-Party Developers. Mary Fernandez, Kathleen Fisher, Nathan Foster, Michael Greenberg, and Yitzhak Mandelbaum Practical Applications of Declarative Languages, January 2008.
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A Dual Semantics for the Data Description Calculus. Kathleen Fisher, Yitzhak Mandelbaum, and David Walker Trends in Functional Programming, April 2007.
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Towards 1-click Tool Generation with PADS. David Burke, Kathleen Fisher, David Walker, Peter White, and Kenny Q. Zhu Workshop on Challenges and Applications of Grammar Induction, June 2007.
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PADS/ML: A Functional Data Description Language. Yitzhak Mandelbaum, Kathleen Fisher, David Walker, Mary Fernandez, and Artem Gleyzer. POPL, January 2007.
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PADS/ML: A Functional Data Description Language. Yitzhak Mandelbaum, Kathleen Fisher, David Walker, Mary Fernandez, and Artem Gleyzer. Princeton Technical Report, July 2006.
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The Theory and Practice of Data Description. Yitzhak Mandelbaum. Ph.D. Thesis, September 2006.
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PADS: An end-to-end system for processing ad hoc data. Mark Daly, Mary Fernandez, Kathleen Fisher, Yitzhak Mandelbaum, and David Walker. SIGMOD, June 2006.
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PADX: Querying Large-scale Ad Hoc Data with XQuery. Mary Fernandez, Kathleen Fisher, Robert Gruber, and Yitzhak Mandelbaum. PLAN-X, January 2006.
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LaunchPads: A System for Processing Ad Hoc Data. Mark Daly, Mary Fernandez, Kathleen Fisher, Yitzhak Mandelbaum, and David Walker. PLAN-X Demo, January 2006.
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The Next 700 Data Description Languages. Kathleen Fisher, Yitzhak Mandelbaum, and David Walker. POPL, January 2006.
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PADS/T: A Language for Describing and Transforming Ad Hoc Data . Mary Fernandez, Kathleen Fisher, Yitzhak Mandelbaum, and David Walker. Princeton Technical Report, September 2005.
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PADS: A Domain-Specific Language for Processing Ad Hoc Data . Kathleen Fisher and Robert Gruber. PLDI, June 2005.
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PADS: Processsing Arbitrary Data Streams. Kathleen Fisher and Robert Gruber. MPDS, June 2003.
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Presentations

Ad Hoc Data and the Token Ambiguity Problem. Qian Xi PADL, January 2009.
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Programming Language Ideas Escape the Lab: A Declarative Data Description Language. Kathleen Fisher Grace Hopper, October 2008.
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From Dirt to Shovels: Fully Automatic Tool Generation from Ad Hoc Data. Kenny Zhu. POPL, January 2008.
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A Generic Programming Toolkit for PADS/ML: First-Class Upgrades for Third-Party Developers. Michael Greenberg. Practical Applications of Declarative Languages, January 2008.
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Towards 1-click Tool Generation with PADS. David Walker. CAGI, June 2007.
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PADS/ML: A Functional Data Description Language. Yitzhak Mandelbaum. POPL, January 2007.
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Typing Ad Hoc Data. Kathleen Fisher. TLDI, January 2007.
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PADS: A System for Managing Ad Hoc Data. Kathleen Fisher. Pomona Distinguished Lecture, November 2006.
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The Next 700 Data Description Languages. Yitzhak Mandelbaum. POPL, January 2006.
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PADS: A Domain-Specific Language for Processing Ad Hoc Data . Kathleen Fisher. PLDI, June 2005.
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The Next 700 Data Description Languages. Yitzhak Mandelbaum. IBM PL Day, April 2005.
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PADS: Simplified Data Processing for Scientists. David Walker. Princeton Engineering Junior Faculty Seminar Series, March 2005.
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PADS/Galax Architecture. Yitzhak Mandelbaum. AT&T Intern Talk, 2004.
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PADS/Galax Introduction. Yitzhak Mandelbaum. AT&T Intern Talk, 2004.
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PADS Overview. Kathleen Fisher. Microsoft Invited Talk, February 2004.
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