Active rules in database systems

✍ Scribed by Paton, Norman W (eds)

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 446
• Series: Monographs in computer science
• Edition: 1999
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A timely survey of the field from the point of view of some of the subject's most active researchers. Divided into several parts organized by theme, the book first covers the underlying methodology regarding active rules, followed by formal specification, rule analysis, performance analysis, and support tools. It then moves on to the implementation of active rules in a number of commercial systems, before concluding with applications and future directions for research. All researchers in databases will find this a valuable overview of the topic

✦ Table of Contents

Content: I. Fundamentals --
1. Introduction / Norman W. Paton and Oscar Diaz --
2. Architecture of Active Database Systems / Alejandro P. Buchmann --
II. Advanced Topics --
3. Rule Analysis / Elena Baralis --
4. Optimization / Norman W. Paton, Andrew Dinn and M. Howard Williams --
5. Monitoring Complex Rule Conditions / Tore Risch and Martin Skold --
6. Performance Assessment / Andreas Geppert and Klaus R. Dittrich --
7. Tool Support / Oscar Diaz --
8. ECA Functionality in a Distributed Environment / Guenter von Bultzingsloewen, Arne Koschel and Peter C. Lockemann --
9. Comparing Deductive and Active Databases / Alvaro A. A. Fernandes --
III. Systems --
10. Active Database Features in SQL3 / Krishna Kulkarni, Nelson Mattos and Roberta Cochrane --
11. Ariel / Eric N. Hanson --
12. SAMOS / Stella Gatziu and Klaus R. Dittrich --
13. EXACT: An Approach to Coping with Heterogeneous Rule Execution Models / Oscar Diaz --
14. REACH / Jurgen Zimmermann and Alejandro P. Buchmann --
15. NAOS / Christine Collet --
16. PFL: An Active Functional DBPL / Swarup Reddi, Alexandra Poulovassilis and Carol Small --
17. Chimera: A Language for Designing Rule Applications / Piero Fraternali and Stefano Paraboschi --
18. RAP: The ROCK & ROLL Active Programming System / Andrew Dinn, Norman W. Paton and M. Howard Williams --
IV. Applications --
19. Database Internal Applications / Suzanne M. Embury and Peter M. D. Gray --
20. Active Database Systems: Expectations, Commercial Experience, and Beyond / Angelika Kotz-Dittrich and Eric Simon --
21. Active Real-Time Database Systems / Jorgen Hansson and Mikael Berndtsson --
V. Summary --
22. Summary / Norman W. Paton.