APRICOTS a prototype implementation of a ConTract system: management of the control flow and the communication system

Author

Schwenkreis, Friedemann

Author_Institution

Inst. for Parallel & Distributed High Performance Syst., Stuttgart Univ., Germany

fYear

1993

fDate

6-8 Oct 1993

Firstpage

12

Lastpage

21

Abstract

The principle of transactions has been proven in the field of database systems. However, there are many fields where classical transactions are not suitable to model the actions of the real world. An approach to extend the principle of transactions is the ConTract model, which weakens some demands of the ACID-principle but at the same time includes other features. An approach to implement a ConTract system is introduced. Especially, the implementation issues of a component for reliable control flow management and of a transaction-oriented communication system are discussed

Keywords

distributed databases; parallel programming; remote procedure calls; software fault tolerance; software reliability; transaction processing; ACID-principle; APRICOTS; ConTract model; classical transactions; database systems; prototype implementation; real world; reliable control flow management; transaction processing; transaction-oriented communication system; Automatic control; Communication system control; Contracts; Control systems; Database systems; Error correction; Protection; Prototypes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Reliable Distributed Systems, 1993. Proceedings., 12th Symposium on

Conference_Location

Princeton, NJ

Print_ISBN

0-8186-4310-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RELDIS.1993.393477

Filename

393477