Transactional Computation: Overview and Discussion

The concept of a transaction, highly significant in the context of data bases, is broadened to make it refer to any atomic operation that changes the state of a software system or its environment, or initiates a control action. This leads us to consider software systems as composed of transactional and procedural computations. We discuss the specification of transactional software, and introduce a mechanism for linking transactions into processes. We also raise several issues relating to transactional computing that were the basis for discussion at the workshop, and include comments by participants.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1999
• Where: FMLDO
• Authors: Alfs T. Berztiss
• Keywords: Atomic Operation, Data Bases, Database, FMLDO 1999, Procedural Computations