Advances in Real-Time Database Systems Research
Special Section on RTDBS of ACM SIGMOD Record 25(1), March 1996.
Azer Bestavros, Guest Editor
January 15, 1996
ABSTRACT
A Real-Time DataBase System (RTDBS) can be viewed as an
amalgamation of a conventional DataBase Management System (DBMS) and a
real-time system. Like a DBMS, it has to process transactions and
guarantee ACID database properties. Furthermore, it has to operate in
real-time, satisfying time constraints imposed on transaction
commitments. A RTDBS may exist as a stand-alone system or as an
embedded component in a larger multidatabase system. The publication
in 1988 of a special issue of ACM SIGMOD Record on Real-Time DataBases
signaled the birth of the RTDBS research area---an area that brings
together researchers from both the database and real-time systems
communities. Today, almost eight years later, I am pleased to present
in this special section of ACM SIGMOD Record a review of recent
advances in RTDBS research. There were 18 submissions to this special
section, of which eight papers were selected for inclusion to provide
the readers of ACM SIGMOD Record with an overview of current and
future research directions within the RTDBS community. In this paper, I summarize these
directions and provide the reader with pointers to other publications
for further information.
CONTENTS
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Advances in Real-Time Database Systems Research ,
Azer Bestavros (Boston University).
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Integrating Temporal, Real-Time, and Active Databases,
Krithi Ramamritham, Raju Sivasankaran, John Stankovic, Don
Towsley, and Ming Xiong (University of Massachusetts at Amherst).
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Design and evaluation of Real-time index concurrency control,
Jayant Haritsa (IISc, Bangalore, India) and S. Seshadri (IIT,
Bombay, India).
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Real-Time Database - Similarity Semantics and Resource Scheduling,
Tei-Wei Kuo (National Chung Cheng University) and Aloysius K. Mok
(University of Texas at Austin).
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Real-Time Concurrency Control In Main Memory Databases,
Ozgur Ulusoy (Bilkent University, Turkey) and Alejandro
Buchmann (T.H. Darmstadt, Germany)
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Enhancing External Consistency in Real-Time Transactions,
Kwei-Jay Lin and Ching-Shan Peng (University of California, Irvine).
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Improving Timeliness in Real-Time Secure Database Systems,
Sang Son
(University of Virginia).
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STanford Real-time Information Processer (STRIP),
Brad Adelberg,
Hector Garcia-Molina (Stanford University), and
Ben Kao (Hong Kong University).
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DeeDS Towards a Distributed and Active Real-Time Database System",
S. Andler, M. Berndtsson, B. Eftring, J. Eriksson, J. Hansson,
and J. Mellin (University of Skoevde).