Active Rules in Database Systems

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Fundamentals

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Introduction

      • Norman W. Paton, Oscar Díaz

      Pages 3-27

   3. Architecture of Active Database Systems

      • Alejandro P. Buchmann

      Pages 29-48

3. Advanced Topics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-49

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   2. Rule Analysis

      • Elena Baralis

      Pages 51-67

   3. Optimization

      • Norman W. Paton, Andrew Dinn, M. Howard Williams

      Pages 69-80

   4. Monitoring Complex Rule Conditions

      • Tore Risch, Martin Sköld

      Pages 81-102

   5. Performance Assessment

      • Andreas Geppert, Klaus R. Dittrich

      Pages 103-125

   6. Tool Support

      • Oscar Díaz

      Pages 127-145

   7. ECA Functionality in a Distributed Environment

      • G. von Bültzingsloewen, A. Koschel, P. C. Lockemann, H.-D. Walter

      Pages 147-175

   8. Comparing Deductive and Active Databases

      • Alvaro A. A. Fernandes

      Pages 177-194

4. Systems

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 195-195

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   2. Active Database Features in SQL3

      • Krishna Kulkarni, Nelson Mattos, Roberta Cochrane

      Pages 197-219

   3. Ariel

      • Eric N. Hanson

      Pages 221-232

   4. SAMOS

      • Stella Gatziu, Klaus R. Dittrich

      Pages 233-247

   5. EXACT: An Approach to Coping with Heterogeneous Rule Execution Models

      • Oscar Díaz

      Pages 249-261

   6. REACH

      • Jürgen Zimmermann, Alejandro P. Buchmann

      Pages 263-277

   7. Naos

      • Christine Collet

      Pages 279-296

   8. PFL: An Active Functional DBPL

      • Swarup Reddi, Alexandra Poulovassilis, Carol Small

      Pages 297-308

Active rules provide a new and important method for designing databases and the subject is seeing an increasing amount of attention from commercial database companies. This book provides a timely survey of the field from the point of view of some of the subject's most active researchers. The book is divided into several parts, organized by theme: the first, Fundamentals covers the underlying methodology reagrding active rules, next comes a collection of chapters which cover formal specification, rule analysis, performance analysis, and support tools, the third part is devoted to a number of chapters covering the implementation of active rules in a number of commercial systems. Finally, come sections on applications and future directions that research may take. All researchers in databases will find this provides a valuable overview of this topic.

• DBMS
• algorithms
• architectures
• classification
• database
• database management
• database system
• formal specification
• performance

• Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

  Norman W. Paton

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