Title :
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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/ENABL.1998.725697
