Using Flexible Transactions to Support Multi-system Telecommunication Applications

Summary: Introduces Flexible Transactions for coordinating workflows across independently developed telecom systems and databases. Declarative service-order specifications enable rapid service evolution, workflow testing, and explicit task concurrency without requiring global transaction control. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 8247
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1992
Pagerank: 6.4389004e-05
Overall Rank: 4,931 | 66.17%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Mansoor Ansari (University of Houston)
2. Linda Ness (Bell Communications Research)
3. Marek Rusinkiewicz (University of Houston)
4. Amit Sheth (Bell Communications Research)

BibTeX Citation

@article{ansari_vldb92,
        title = {{Using Flexible Transactions to Support Multi-system Telecommunication Applications}},
        author = {Ansari, Mansoor and Ness, Linda and Rusinkiewicz, Marek and Sheth, Amit},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '92},
        volume = {18},
        pages = {65},
        year = {1992}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,609	Managing Semantic Heterogeneity in Databases : A Theoretical Perspective	1997	PODS	0.00010225236
3,142	Specifying and Enforcing Intertask Dependencies	1993	VLDB	7.7169178e-05
6,983	Ensuring Relaxed Atomicity for Flexible Transactions in Multidatabase Systems	1994	SIGMOD	5.7303405e-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
13,060	Concurrency Control and Recovery of Multidatabase Work Flows in Telecommunication Applications	1993	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
14,231	Supporting State-wide Immunization Tracking using Multi-Paradigm Workflow Technology	1996	VLDB	-

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 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
182	Federated Database Systems for Managing Distributed, Heterogeneous, and Autonomous Databases	1991	VLDB	0.00026367971
1,846	Quasi Serializability: a Correctness Criterion for Global Concurrency Control in InterBase	1989	VLDB	9.6268073e-05
2,089	A Transactional Model for Long-Running Activities	1991	VLDB	9.1910671e-05
2,301	A Multidatabase Transaction Model for InterBase	1990	VLDB	8.7813535e-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
5,292	An Optimistic Commit Protocol for Distributed Transaction Management	1991	SIGMOD	6.2800097e-05
5,628	A Formalism for Extended Transaction Models	1991	VLDB	6.1429911e-05

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