Evolving databases: an application to electronic commerce

  • Authors:
  • Bradley Fordham;Serge Abiteboul;Yelena Yesha

  • Affiliations:
  • NIST & UMBC;INRIA-Rocquencourt & Stanford;NASA, CESDIS & UMBC

  • Venue:
  • IDEAS'97 Proceedings of the 1997 international conference on International database engineering and applications symposium
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

Many complex and dynamic database applications such as product modeling and negotiation monitoring require a number of features that have been adopted in semantic models and databases such as active rules, constraints, inheritance, etc. Unfortunately, each feature has largely been considered in isolation. Furthermore, in a commercial negotiation, participants staking their financial well-beings will never accept a system they cannot gain a precise behavioral understanding of. We attack these problems with a rich and extensible database model, evolving databases, with a clear and precise semantics based on evolving algebras [3]. We also briefly describe a prototype implementation of the model [10].