A distributed heterogeneous database system based on mobile agents

Author

Di Stefano, Antonella ; Bello, Lucia Lo ; Santoro, Coorado

Author_Institution

Ist. di Inf. e Telecommun., Catania Univ., Italy

fYear

1998

fDate

17-19 Jun 1998

Firstpage

223

Lastpage

228

Abstract

This paper proposes a new model of a distributed DBMS based on the mobile agent programming paradigm instead of the client/server one. The paper investigates the suitability of the mobile agents approach to the problem of integrating a collection of local DBMS into a single heterogeneous large-scale distributed DBMS and it presents a model of distributed transactions as a set of mobile agents, illustrating the relevant execution semantics. In addition, the mechanisms which are needed to guarantee the ACID properties in the considered environment are discussed

Keywords

distributed databases; object-oriented programming; software agents; transaction processing; ACID properties; distributed heterogeneous database; distributed transactions; execution semantics; large-scale distributed database; mobile agent programming; Database systems; Distributed databases; Gratings; Large-scale systems; Mechanical factors; Mobile agents; Network servers; Protocols; Telecommunications; Transaction databases;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, 1998. (WET ICE '98) Proceedings., Seventh IEEE International Workshops on

Conference_Location

Stanford, CA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8751-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ENABL.1998.725697

Filename

725697