Organizing Long-Running Activities with Triggers and Transactions

Summary: Organizes long-running, multi-step processes via triggers and nested transactions. Event-condition-action rules enable data-driven control flow, supporting modularity, concurrency, integrity constraints, and flexible failure handling in workflows. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2547
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1990
Pagerank: 0.0001136991
Overall Rank: 1,276 | 91.25%
DOI: 10.1145/93597.98730

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Umeshwar Dayal (Digital Equipment Corporation)
2. Meichun Hsu (Harvard University)
3. Rivka Ladin (Digital Equipment Corporation)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{dayal_sigmod90,
        title = {{Organizing Long-Running Activities with Triggers and Transactions}},
        author = {Dayal, Umeshwar and Hsu, Meichun and Ladin, Rivka},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '90},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/93597.98730},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/93597.98730},
        year = {1990}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 15 of 15 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,089	A Transactional Model for Long-Running Activities	1991	VLDB	9.1910671e-05
2,188	Promises and Realities of Active Database Systems	1995	VLDB	8.9886936e-05
2,492	A Model for Active Object Oriented Database	1991	VLDB	8.5073897e-05
2,641	Logic Based Modeling and Analysis of Workflows (Extended Abstract)	1998	PODS	8.307117e-05
3,142	Specifying and Enforcing Intertask Dependencies	1993	VLDB	7.7169178e-05
3,528	Practical Applications of Triggers and Constraints: Successes and Lingering Issues	2000	VLDB	7.3411417e-05
4,040	Temporal Conditions and Integrity Constraints in Active Database Systems	1995	SIGMOD	6.9423365e-05
4,476	ASSET: A System for Supporting Extended Transactions	1994	SIGMOD	6.6794902e-05
5,628	A Formalism for Extended Transaction Models	1991	VLDB	6.1429911e-05
6,362	A Multidatabase System for Tracking and Retrieval of Financial Data	1994	VLDB	5.900531e-05
7,726	Business Process Coordination: State of the Art, Trends, and Open Issues	2001	VLDB	5.5580936e-05
7,816	Non-Deterministic Queue Operations	1991	PODS	5.537774e-05
12,957	The STRIP Rule System For Efficiently Maintaining Derived Data	1997	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
13,006	Towards a Cooperative Transaction Model - The Cooperative Activity Model -	1995	VLDB	5.093636e-05
13,056	Third Generation TP Monitors: A Database Challenge	1993	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
64	Sagas	1987	SIGMOD	0.00038756588
1,184	Situation Monitoring for Active Databases	1989	VLDB	0.00011774699
1,705	Split-Transactions for Open-Ended Activities	1988	VLDB	9.9629987e-05

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