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An Approach to Multi-User KBMS in Workstation/Server Environments

Fernando de Ferreira Rezende, Theo Härder

University of Kaiserslautern
P.O. Box 3049, 67653 Kaiserslautern, Germany
e-mail: haerder@informatik.uni-kl.de

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Abstract:

We begin this paper by discussing relevant processing characteristics of Knowledge Base Management Systems (KBMSs). Provided this basis, we present the main organizational forms of workstation/server architectures, discuss their main features, and appoint the most feasible one to KBMSs. As an implementation platform for our techniques for multi-user KBMSs, we introduce an existing single-user KBMS and its architecture. Thereafter, we approach aspects of transaction facilities for such systems, and discuss a general architecture offering transaction services. Following, we detail it and introduce multi-user architectural components of such systems. Finally, we highlight the most important characteristics of each one of these components and discuss their most distinguishing qualities.

Published in Proc. of the 11th Brazilian Symposium on Data Bases, San Carlos, Brazil, 1996, pp. 58-72.