Distributed Rule Monitoring in Active Databases

Issue title: Intelligent Information Systems

Guest editors: Forouzan GolshaniGuest Editor, Suzanne W. DietrichGuest Editor and Susan D. UrbanGuest Editor

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Hsu, Ing-Miin^{; *} | Singhal, Mukesh | Liu, Ming T.

Affiliations: Department of Computer and Information Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210

Correspondence: [*] Author to whom all correspondence should be addressed at 786 Thomas Lane, Columbus, OH 43214.

Abstract: Production rules provide a unifying mechanism for several traditional features in database management systems and for new functionalities sought after by potential database applications. With integrated production rules, a database is transformed from traditionally passive to active such that the database will take predefined actions without user intervention when the database transits into certain states. Processing every rule upon every update in the system places a tremendous performance requirement on the success of active databases. The availability of multiple sites in a distributed database offers an opportunity to process rules in parallel. In addition, the features offered by production rules are desirable to distributed databases as well. The problem of monitoring rules in a distributed active database is investigated in this article to successfully integrate rules into distributed databases.

DOI: 10.3233/ICA-1994-1403

Journal: Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 295-310, 1994