Abstraction in Recovery Management

Summary: Introduces a multi-layer abstraction model for recovery management, showing correctness of actions on abstract data types even under nonserializable and nonrecoverable schedules. Layered transaction-oriented synchronization and rollback aim to extend DBMS-like data integrity to broader information systems, focusing on recovery. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2356
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1986
Pagerank: 0.00011320549
Overall Rank: 1,287 | 91.18%
DOI: 10.1145/16894.16862

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Authors

1. J Eliot B Moss (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
2. Nancy D Griffeth (Georgia Institute of Technology)
3. Marc H Graham (Georgia Institute of Technology)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{moss_sigmod86,
        title = {{Abstraction in Recovery Management}},
        author = {Moss, J Eliot B and Griffeth, Nancy D and Graham, Marc H},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '86},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/16894.16862},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/16894.16862},
        year = {1986}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 12 of 12 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,450	Formal Model of Correctness Without Serializability	1988	SIGMOD	8.565918e-05
2,518	Architecture and Implementation of the Darmstadt Database Kernel System	1987	SIGMOD	8.4755514e-05
2,535	ACTA: A Framework for Specifying and Reasoning about Transaction Structure and Behavior	1990	SIGMOD	8.4560885e-05
2,835	A Formal Approach to Recovery by Compensating Transactions	1990	VLDB	8.0726749e-05
3,348	Multi-Level Recovery	1990	PODS	7.4945952e-05
3,384	Towards a Unified Theory of Concurrency Control and Recovery	1993	PODS	7.4552885e-05
3,775	Extracting Concurrency from Objects: A Methodology	1991	SIGMOD	7.1372528e-05
7,026	Operation Specific Locking In B-Trees	1987	PODS	5.7232444e-05
8,325	A Performance Evaluation of Multi-Level Transaction Management	1991	VLDB	5.4538485e-05
8,631	Performance Evaluation of Semantics-based Multilevel Concurrency Control Protocols	1990	SIGMOD	5.3966275e-05
12,952	Correctness and Parallelism in Composite Systems	1997	PODS	5.093636e-05
13,111	Integrating Implicit Answers with Object-Oriented Queries	1991	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,751	An Operational Model For Database System Reliability	1983	PODS	8.1649564e-05

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