Special Issue of The Journal of Systems and Software
on
Real-time Active Databases : Theory and Practice
(Tentative Publication Date : July 1998)
The areas of real-time databases and active databases have received
tremendous attention in the last few years. Real-time database systems
provide issues for the processing of time-constrained transactions in
time-critical applications, whereas active database systems provide rules
for triggering transactions to monitor and react to changes in the external
environment in a timely manner. Although the applications of real-time
databases and active databases have similar characteristics, their research
has proceeded separately. In recent years, there is a strong move toward
integrating these two new technologies. However, the integration is not
trivial. A lot of design issues have to be reconsidered and solved. The
purpose of this special issue is to report new research results on this
newly emerging area, real-time active databases.
The special issue will focus on (but is not limited to) the following
topics and issues in the context of the design and development of real-time
active database systems :
* scheduling of time-constrained triggered transactions
* deadline and priority assignment
* concurrency control and recovery
* modelling of real-time active transactions
* coupling modes for triggering time-constrained transactions
* rules specification and evaluation
* system architecture
* commitment of transactions
* replicated data management
* prototyping of real-time active database systems
* applications and tools
Papers should be on the border between theory and practice, reporting
findings with practical implications. They should contain some sort of
practical evaluation of their findings, through either experimentation,
simulation, analysis, and/or experience. Please submit six copies of your
manuscript to the guest editor by 31 July 1997 :
Kam-yiu Lam
Guest Editor
Journal of Systems and Software
Department of Computer Science
City University of Hong Kong
83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon
HONG KONG
tel : (852) 2788-9807
fax : (852) 2788-8614
email : cskylam@cityu.edu.hk
Instructions for submitting papers : Papers should not exceed 30 double
spaced pages. Papers should not have been previously published, nor
currently submitted for publication. Papers should include a cover page
containing title, authors' names and affiliations, postal and email
addresses, telephone numbers and fax numbers. Papers should include a 300
words abstract with three to five keywords.
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