Active database systems support mechanisms that enable them to respond automatically to
events that are taking place either inside or outside the database system itself. Considerable …

Enterprise Modeling is a central activity in Enterprise Engineering and can facilitate
Production Management activities. This state-of-the-art paper first recalls definitions and …

In this article we present an approach to integrity maintenance, consisting of automatically
generating production rules for integrity enforcement. Constraints are expressed as …

Rules have been proposed for providing active be-haviour in DBMS. Previous attempts to
add rules to Object Oriented DBs have often resulted in a dichotomy between rules and …

Describes the design and implementation of the Ariel DBMS and its tightly-coupled forward-
chaining rule system. The query language of Ariel is a subset of POSTQUEL (the …

Enterprise modelling is a central activity in enterprise engineering (EE) and enterprise
integration (EI). In this paper, we first present our definition and recall fundamental principles …

Exception handling in workflow management systems (WFMSs) is a very important problem
since it is not possible to specify all possible outcomes and alternatives. Effective reuse of …

Enterprise modelling is a crucial step both for Enterprise Engineering and Enterprise
Integration. It is concerned with representation and analysis methods for design engineering …

This report explores issues related to the use of database management technology in
support of real-time system programming. It describes the potential benefits of database …

Methods for storing and manipulating large rule bases using a relational database
management systems (DBMS) are discussed. An approach to decomposing and storing the …