Real-Time Database and Information Systems: Research Advances: Research Advances / Edition 1

by Azer Bestavros, Victor Fay-Wolfe

Overview

Real-time systems are defined as those for which correctness depends not only on the logical properties of the produced results, but also on the temporal properties of these results. In a database, real-time means that in addition to typical logical consistency constraints, such as a constraint on a data item's value, there are constraints on when transactions execute and on the ‘freshness' of the data transactions access.
The challenges and tradeoffs faced by the designers of real-time database systems are quite different from those faced by the designers of general-purpose database systems. To achieve the fundamental requirements of timeliness and predictability, not only do conventional methods for scheduling and transaction management have to be redesigned, but also new concepts that have not been considered in conventional database systems or in real-time systems need to be added. Real-Time Database and Information Systems: Research Advances is devoted to new techniques for scheduling of transactions, concurrency management, transaction logging, database languages, and new distributed database architectures.
Real-Time Database and Information Systems: Research Advances is primarily intended for practicing engineers and researchers working in the growing area of real-time database and information retrieval systems. For practitioners, the book will provide a much needed bridge for technology transfer and continued education. For researchers, the book will provide a comprehensive reference for well-established results. The book can also be used in a senior or graduate level course on real-time systems, real-time database systems, and database systems, or closely related courses.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792380115
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	09/30/1997
Series:	The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science , #420
Edition description:	1997
Pages:	426
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.04(d)

Table of Contents

1 Real-Time Mutable Broadcast Disks.- 2 Real-Time Data and Coordination Control for Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems.- 3 File Layout Design of Vbr Video on Zoned-Disks.- 4 A Framework for Using Redundant Data to Optimize Read-Intensive Database Applications.- 5 Object-Oriented Data Management and Distribution for Real-Time Command and Control Systems.- 6 Integrating Fixed Priority and Static Scheduling for External Consistency.- 7 Scheduling Nested Transactions in Real-Time Database Systems.- 8 Data State Dependent Approach for Criticality Assignment in Real-Time Active Databases.- 9 Towards Unifying Database Scheduling and Concurrency Control: A Frontier Approach.- 10 A Study of Priority Cognizance in Conflict Resolution for Firm Real Time Database Systems.- 11 A Performance Study of the Semantic-Based Concurrency Control Prool in Air Traffic Control Systems.- 12 Enhancement of Alternative Version Concurrency Control Using Dynamic Adjustment of Serialization Order.- 13 Concurrency Control for Approximate Query Processing of Real-Time Database Systems.- 14 Implementing Hard Real- Time Transactions on Multiprocessors.- 15 Concurrency Admission Control for Rt Databases.- 16 Standardizing Real-Time Databases – RTSQL.- 17 Optimizing Performance- Polymorphic Declarative Database Queries.- 18 Specification And Analysis of Transactions in Real-Time Active Databases.- 19 Transaction Processing in the Rodain Real-Time Database System.- 20 A Logging Technique Based on Transaction Types for Real-Time Databases.- 21 A Case for Real-Time Client-Server Databases.- 22 Beehive: Global Multimedia Database Support for Dependable, Real-Time Applications.

Editorial Reviews

Presents recent developments in systems whose correctness depends on the temporal as well as logical properties of the produced results, and in particular databases in which there are constraints on when transactions execute and the freshness of the data transactions access as well as typical logical constraints such as on an item's value. Primarily for practicing engineers and researchers, covers applications, scheduling, concurrency management, languages, logging and recovery, and architectures. The 22 papers are from a September 1997 international workshop, the location of which is not revealed. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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