|
Published Articles >> Table of Contents >> Abstract
9th International Database Engineering & Application Symposium (IDEAS'05)
pp. 137-147
Agents and Databases: Friends or Foes?
Peter C. Lockemann, Universität Karlsruhe
René Witte, Universität Karlsruhe
Full Article Text:
 
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/IDEAS.2005.8
Send link to a friend
| Abstract |
|
On first glance agent technology seems more like a
hostile intruder into the database world. On the other
hand, the two could easily complement each other,
since agents carry out information processes whereas
databases supply information to processes. Nonetheless,
to view agent technology from a database perspective
seems to question some of the basic paradigms
of database technology, particularly the premise
of semantic consistency of a database. The paper argues
that the ensuing uncertainty in distributed databases
can be modelled by beliefs, and develops the
basic concepts for adjusting peer-to-peer databases to
the individual beliefs in single nodes and collective
beliefs in the entire distributed database.
|
 Additional Information
|
Citation:
Peter C. Lockemann, René Witte,
"Agents and Databases: Friends or Foes?,"
ideas,
pp. 137-147,
9th International Database Engineering & Application Symposium (IDEAS'05),
2005
|
|
