Active Databases as a Paradigm for Enhanced Computing Environments

Summary: Pioneers active databases as intelligent, reactive information systems combining database and AI paradigms. Introduces semantic descriptions, dynamic views, declarative constraint equations, and binding-time analysis for uniform, responsive data access and integrity maintenance. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 7767
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1983
Pagerank: 0.00015910777
Overall Rank: 598 | 95.90%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Matthew Morgenstern (University of Southern California)

BibTeX Citation

@article{morgenstern_vldb83,
        title = {{Active Databases as a Paradigm for Enhanced Computing Environments}},
        author = {Morgenstern, Matthew},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '83},
        pages = {34--42},
        year = {1983}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 14 of 14 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
147	Making Smalltalk a Database System	1984	SIGMOD	0.00029474235
197	The Architecture Of An Active Data Base Management System*	1989	SIGMOD	0.00025700767
716	Set-Oriented Production Rules in Relational Database Systems	1990	SIGMOD	0.00014652696
1,329	Deriving Production Rules for Constraint Maintenance	1990	VLDB	0.00011140837
2,820	On Maintaining Priorities in a Production Rule System	1991	VLDB	8.0911708e-05
2,879	Constraint Equations: Declarative Expression of Constraints With Automatic Enforcement	1984	VLDB	8.0056121e-05
2,975	Monitoring Database Objects	1989	VLDB	7.9077995e-05
3,130	Language Constructs for Programming Active Databases	1991	VLDB	7.7250012e-05
3,797	On Implementing a Language for Specifying Active Database Execution Models	1993	VLDB	7.1176817e-05
5,147	Ski: A Semantics-Knowledgeable Interface	1984	VLDB	6.3467506e-05
5,270	Semantics and Expressiveness Issues in Active Databases	1995	PODS	6.2908453e-05
12,994	Enhancing Database Correctness: A Statistical Approach	1995	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
13,072	An Active Object-Oriented Database: A Multi-Paradigm Approach to Constraint Management	1993	VLDB	5.093636e-05
13,126	The C-based Database Programming Language Jasmine/C	1990	VLDB	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
139	A Language Facility for Designing Interactive Database-Intensive Applications	1978	SIGMOD	0.00029742792
703	TIMBER: A Sophisticated Relation Browser	1982	VLDB	0.0001485124
3,159	Specification-Based Computing Environments	1982	VLDB	7.6854151e-05

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