Active Database Systems: Triggers and Rules for Advanced Database Processing (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1558603042 ISBN 13: 9781558603042

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann, 1995

Synopsis

Active database systems enhance traditional database functionality with powerful rule-processing capabilities, providing a uniform and efficient mechanism for many database system applications. Among these applications are integrity constraints, views, authorization, statistics gathering, monitoring and alerting, knowledge-based systems, expert systems, and workflow management. This significant collection focuses on the most prominent research projects in active database systems. The project leaders for each prototype system provide detailed discussions of their projects and the relevance of their results to the future of active database systems.

* A broad overview of current active database systems and how they can be extended and improved* A comprehensive introduction to the core topics of the field, including its motivation and history * Coverage of active database (trigger) capabilities in commercial products* Discussion of forthcoming standards

About this title

About the Authors

Jennifer Widom, Stanford University and Stefano Ceri, Politecnico di Milano

Stefano Ceri is Professor of Database Systems at Politecnico di Milano. His research interests are focused on extending database technology to incorporate data distribution, deductive and active rules, and object orientation.

From the Back Cover

Active database systems enhance traditional database functionality with powerful rule-processing capabilities, providing a uniform and efficient mechanism for many database system applications. Among these applications are integrity constraints, views, authorization, statistics gathering, monitoring and alerting, knowledge-based systems, expert systems, and workflow management. This significant collection focuses on the most prominent research projects in active database systems. The project leaders for each prototype system provide detailed discussions of their projects and the relevance of their results to the future of active database systems.

Features:

• A broad overview of current active database systems and how they can be extended and improved
  
• A comprehensive introduction to the core topics of the field, including its motivation and history
  
• Coverage of active database (trigger) capabilities in commercial products
  
• Discussion of forthcoming standards

Edition details

• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1558603042
• ISBN 13: 9781558603042
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 332
• Editor: Widom Jennifer, Ceri Stefano