Isolation Support for Service-based Applications: A Position Paper

Summary: Proposes 'Promises', a client-facing abstraction providing isolation for long-running service-oriented operations without locks/ACID. Promises let clients assert/check resource conditions and rely on them for later actions via a uniform API, supported by varied server-side enforcement (reservations, versions, leases). (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 90
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2007
Pagerank: 5.6029996e-05
Overall Rank: 7,526 | 48.37%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Paul Greenfield (University of Sydney)
2. Alan Fekete (University of Sydney)
3. Julian Jang (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation)
4. Dean Kuo (University of Manchester)
5. Surya Nepal (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{greenfield_cidr07,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '07},
        title = {{Isolation Support for Service-based Applications: A Position Paper}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Greenfield, Paul and Fekete, Alan and Jang, Julian and Kuo, Dean and Nepal, Surya},
        year = {2007}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
12,220	Engagements: Building Eventually ACiD Business Transactions	2013	CIDR	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
81	Implementation of Integrity Constraints and Views by Query Modification	1975	SIGMOD	0.00036443459
12,743	Consistency for Web Services Applications	2005	VLDB	5.093636e-05

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