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TAM: A System for Dynamic Transactional Activity Management Tong Zhou, Ling Liu, and Calton Pu   View Paper (PDF)     View Demo (HTML)   Return to Demonstrations Abstract Electronic commerce (EC) has remarkably reshaped today's business practices. The logic embedded in business transactions are becoming more flexible and sophisticated; the number of components within these business transactions are fastly increasing; and business transactions are getting more distributed and interactive as well. These, on the other hand, make today's business applications more vulnerable to resource availability constraints and consistency problems due to failures. For example, network congestion, server overload, user absence, and other exceptions all might cause temporary or permanent bottlenecks to ongoing business work ows. Developing system support to make work flow activities more reliable, efficient, and adaptive to changes or exceptions therefore poses important yet challenging questions that call for practical solutions. References Note: References link to DBLP on the Web. [1] Roger S. Barga , Calton Pu : A Practical and Modular Implementation of Extended Transaction Models. VLDB 1995 : 206-217 [2] Philip A. Bernstein : Transaction Processing Monitors. CACM 33(11) : 75-86(1990) [3] Ahmed K. Elmagarmid (Ed.): Database Transaction Models for Advanced Applications. Morgan Kaufmann 1992, ISBN 1-55860-214-3 Contents [4] Jim Gray , Andreas Reuter : Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques. Morgan Kaufmann 1993, ISBN 1-55860-190-2 Contents [5] Ling Liu , Robert Meersman : The Building Blocks for Specifying Communication Behavior of Complex Objects: An Activity-Driven Approach. TODS 21(2) : 157-207(1996) [6] Ling Liu , Calton Pu : ActivityFlow: Towards Incremental Specification and Flexible Coordination of Workflow Activities. ER 1997 : 169-182 [7] Ling Liu , Calton Pu : Methodical Restructuring of Complex Workflow Activities. ICDE 1998 : 342-350 [8] ... [9] Calton Pu , Gail E. Kaiser , Norman C. Hutchinson : Split-Transactions for Open-Ended Activities. VLDB 1988 : 26-37 [10] Tong Zhou , Calton Pu , Ling Liu : Adaptable, Efficient, and Modular Coordination of Distributed Extended Transactions. PDIS 1996 : 262-273 [11] Tong Zhou , Calton Pu , Ling Liu : Dynamic Restructuring of Transactional Workflow Activities: A Practical Implementation Method. CIKM 1998 : 378-385 BIBTEX @inproceedings{DBLP:conf/sigmod/ZhouLP99,   author    = {Tong Zhou and                 Ling Liu and                 Calton Pu},    editor    = {Alex Delis and                 Christos Faloutsos and                 Shahram Ghandeharizadeh},    title     = {TAM: A System for Dynamic Transactional Activity Management},    booktitle = {SIGMOD 1999, Proceedings ACM SIGMOD International Conference                 on Management of Data, June 1-3, 1999, Philadephia, Pennsylvania,                 USA},    publisher = {ACM Press},    year      = {1999},    isbn      = {1-58113-084-8},    pages     = {571-573},    crossref  = {DBLP:conf/sigmod/99},    bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de} } }, Copyright(C) 2000 ACM