Title
CAGISTrans: Providing Adaptable Transactional Support for Cooperative Work – an Extended Treatment
Abstract
The theme of this paper is on transactional support for cooperative work environments, focusing on data sharing – i.e., providing suitable mechanisms to manage concurrent access to shared resources. The subject is not new per se. In fact, in terms of transaction models and frameworks, several solutions already exist. Still, there are some problems that are not solved. Among these are the problems that result from the dynamic and heterogeneous nature of cooperative work. Our solution is to provide transactional support that not only can be tailored to suit different situations, but can also be modified following changes in the actual environment while the work is being performed – i.e., adaptable transactional support. As part of this, we have identified and extracted the beneficial features from existing models and attempted to extend these to form a transactional framework, called CAGISTrans. This is a framework for the specification of transaction models suiting specific applications. To handle dynamic environments we propose a new way of organizing the elements of a transaction model to allow runtime refinement. In addition, we have developed a transaction management system, built on the middleware principle, to allow interoperability and database independence. Thus this addresses the problems induced by the heterogeneous nature of cooperative environments.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1023/B:ITEM.0000008076.39422.bb
Information Technology and Management
Keywords
Field
DocType
extended treatment,transactional framework,cooperative work,database transactions and cscw,transactional support,providing adaptable transactional support,transaction model,transaction management system,heterogeneous nature,adaptable transactional support,cooperative work environment,dynamic environment,cooperative environment,middleware
Transactional framework,Middleware,Transaction management system,Cooperative work,Interoperability,Computer science,Data sharing,Knowledge management,Distributed transaction,Transactional leadership
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
5
1-2
1573-7667
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.46
15
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Heri Ramampiaro115420.46
Mads Nygård29214.52