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One of the most difficult issues in the design of active database applications is the issue of predicting an application's behavior. In this paper we propose a knowledge based representation of an active database application's meta-data. This representation facilitates reasoning about important dimensions of an application's behavior such as: detecting the consequences of an event, data dependencies, termination and confluence and transactions control flow. This paper describes the meta-data level and some of the reasoning results.
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Etzion, O. (1995). Reasoning about the behavior of active databases applications. In: Sellis, T. (eds) Rules in Database Systems. RIDS 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 985. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60365-4_121
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