A Simple Model of Negotiation for Cooperative Updates on Database Schema Components

  • Authors:
  • Stephen J. Hegner

  • Affiliations:
  • Umeå University, Department of Computing Science, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden, hegner@cs.umu.se, http://www.cs.umu.se/~hegner

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2011 conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases XXII
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Modern applications involving information systems often require the cooperation of several distinct users, and many models of such cooperation have arisen over the years. One way to model such situations is via a cooperative update on a database; that is, an update for which no single user has the necessary access rights, so that several users, each with distinct rights, must cooperate to achieve the desired goal. However, cooperative update mandates new ways of modelling and extending certain fundamentals of database systems. In this paper, such extensions are explored, using database schema components as the underlying model. The main contribution is an effective three-stage process for inter-component negotiation.