Temporal branching as a conflict management technique

Roy Gelbard, Asher Gilmour

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Abstract

The current research attempts to model a technique for man-aging conflicts within an integrated database. An integrated database being a database whose schema is an integration of several external database schemas, independent of each other. The independence of the systems allows conflicting values to be entered into the same data ob-jects. For example, one system may hold the value of female for a specific data object where as another may hold male. The conflict is only discov-ered when the data objects are brought to the integrated database, and then there is need to resolve the conflict. A technique to manage conflicts is developed based on version manage-ment, used in temporal databases, and the log-file approach used in more conventional technologies. The model combines temporal database tools with distributed database management tools. Thus it obtains greater flexibility than existing replication and log-file techniques and is more economic in record volume than the temporal approach.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDatabase Schema Evolution and Meta-Modeling-9th InternationalWorkshop on Foundations of Models and Languages for Data and Objects FoMLaDO/DEMM 2000, Selected Papers
EditorsBert de Brock, Stefan Conrad, Herman Balsters
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages100-114
Number of pages15
ISBN (Print)3540422722
DOIs
StatePublished - 2001
Externally publishedYes
Event9th International Workshop on Foundations of Models and Languages for Data and Objects, FoMLaDO/DEMM 2000 - Dagstuhl Castle, Germany
Duration: 18 Sep 200021 Sep 2000

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume2065
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference9th International Workshop on Foundations of Models and Languages for Data and Objects, FoMLaDO/DEMM 2000
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityDagstuhl Castle
Period18/09/0021/09/00

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© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2001.

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