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: hecff12ffcbfabf3d
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1990
Pagerank: 0.00011076254
Overall Rank: 1,307 | 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
2,149	A Transactional Model for Long-Running Activities	1991	VLDB	8.957504e-05
2,236	Promises and Realities of Active Database Systems	1995	VLDB	8.777981e-05
2,552	A Model for Active Object Oriented Database	1991	VLDB	8.2863926e-05
2,709	Logic Based Modeling and Analysis of Workflows (Extended Abstract)	1998	PODS	8.0906654e-05
3,211	Specifying and Enforcing Intertask Dependencies	1993	VLDB	7.515319e-05
3,608	Practical Applications of Triggers and Constraints: Successes and Lingering Issues	2000	VLDB	7.1494e-05
4,140	Temporal Conditions and Integrity Constraints in Active Database Systems	1995	SIGMOD	6.7691558e-05
4,588	ASSET: A System for Supporting Extended Transactions	1994	SIGMOD	6.5049643e-05
5,772	A Formalism for Extended Transaction Models	1991	VLDB	5.9827574e-05
6,503	A Multidatabase System for Tracking and Retrieval of Financial Data	1994	VLDB	5.7466167e-05
7,909	Business Process Coordination: State of the Art, Trends, and Open Issues	2001	VLDB	5.4128713e-05
7,999	Non-Deterministic Queue Operations	1991	PODS	5.3930675e-05
13,294	The STRIP Rule System For Efficiently Maintaining Derived Data	1997	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05
13,343	Towards a Cooperative Transaction Model - The Cooperative Activity Model -	1995	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
13,393	Third Generation TP Monitors: A Database Challenge	1993	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-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
66	Sagas	1987	SIGMOD	0.00037911331
1,199	Situation Monitoring for Active Databases	1989	VLDB	0.00011533855
1,752	Split-Transactions for Open-Ended Activities	1988	VLDB	9.7124696e-05

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