Publications of Franz Puntigam (BKP93)

Omran Bukhres, Eva Kühn, and Franz Puntigam.
A Language Multidatabase System Communication Protocol.
In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Data Engineering (DE'93), Vienna, Austria, April 1993.

Abstract:

Rapid growth in the area of Multi Database Systems (MDBS), which involve both the access of global data and distributed transaction processing, has created a need for programming languages that provide communication reliability and powerful synchronization. Traditional sequential languages extended with a few library routines are limited in their ability to support the demands of distributed programming. In this paper, we introduce the requirements of the MDBS. We then present the VPL (Vienna Parallel Logic) programming language and its features, and illustrate how VPL can be utilized to implement an MDBS communication protocol. The VPL language architecture provides a concurrent logic language, as well as features of both the distributed operating system and the database management system. These features combine to support the communication and synchronization required by distributed transaction processing. In addition, our VPL language is a general purpose logic language that supports a high level abstraction and a transaction concept suitable for use as an all-purpose distributed programming language.

Paper

@InProceedings{BKP93,
  author    = "O. Bukhres and {e}. K{\"{u}}hn and F. Puntigam",
  title     = "A Language Multidatabase System Communication Protocol",
  booktitle = "Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Data Engineering",
  year      = 1993,
  publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
  month     = apr,
  url       = "http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/franz/papers/BKP93.ps.Z"
}