Business Policy Modeling and Enforcement in Databases

Summary: A finite-state language unifies access, audit, usage, privacy, and retention policies as business-object lifecycles. Compilation to temporal integrity constraints enforces them, while formal reasoning detects conflicts and unenforceable rules. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: ha5696d5b16820d85
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2011
Pagerank: 4.9793485e-05
Overall Rank: 12,698 | 14.63%
DOI: 10.14778/3402707.3402730

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Authors

1. Ahmed A. Ataullah (University of Waterloo)
2. Frank Wm. Tompa (University of Waterloo)

BibTeX Citation

@article{ataullah_vldb11,
        title = {{Business Policy Modeling and Enforcement in Databases}},
        author = {Ataullah, Ahmed A. and Tompa, Frank Wm.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '11},
        volume = {4},
        number = {11},
        pages = {921--932},
        doi = {10.14778/3402707.3402730},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3402707.3402730},
        year = {2011}
}

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

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612	Composite Event Specification in Active Databases: Model & Implementation	1992	VLDB	0.00015573929
2,221	Promises and Realities of Active Database Systems	1995	VLDB	8.8109062e-05
3,517	Integrating Triggers and Declarative Constraints in SQL Database Systems	1996	VLDB	7.2422477e-05
3,600	Practical Applications of Triggers and Constraints: Successes and Lingering Issues	2000	VLDB	7.1765044e-05

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