(DBWORLD) Book Announcement

Panos Chrysanthis (panos@cs.pitt.edu)
Tue, 29 Apr 1997 21:40:52 -0500 (CDT)

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Publication Announcement
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An IEEE executive briefing on semantics-based transaction processing is now
available. For more details as well as to read the introduction visit:
http://ada.computer.org/cspress/catalog/br07405/acc-tc.htm

Advances in Concurrency Control and Transaction Processing

by Krithi Ramamritham and Panos K. Chrysanthis

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1: Introduction

1.1 Motivation behind Semantics-Based Transaction Processing

1.1.1 Software Development
1.1.2 Workflow Management
1.1.3 Manufacturing Application

1.2 Overview of the Tutorial

Chapter 2: A Brief Introduction to Traditional Transaction Processing

2.1 Transactions: Motivation and Properties

2.2 Correctness of Concurrent Executions

2.3 Overview of Concurrency Control Strategies

2.4 Overview of Recovery Schemes

Chapter 3: Enhancing the Performance of Concurrency Control and
Recovery Techniques

3.1 Concurrency Control

3.2 Recovery and Commit Processing

Chapter 4: Semantics-Based Concurrency Control: Beyond Page-Level Operations

4.1 Concurrency Control for Simple Objects

4.2 Concurrency Control for Complex Objects

Chapter 5: Advanced Transaction Models: Beyond Atomic Transactions

5.1 Specific Advanced Transaction Models

5.2 Synthesizing New Transaction Models

Chapter 6: New Correctness Criteria: Beyond Traditional Database Applications

6.1 Correctness Achieved by Relaxing Serializability

6.2 Correctness Criteria for Multidatabases

6.3 Correctness Criteria for Real-Time and Active Databases

Chapter 7: A Summary of the State of the Art

7.1 Database Consistency Requirements

7.2 Transaction Correctness Properties Databases

Chapter 8: The Future: Transaction Processing Trends

References

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