Towards a Better Definition of Transactions
This paper builds on a technical report written by Carl Hewitt and Henry Baker called "Actors and Continuous Functionals". What is called a "goal-oriented activity" in that paper will be referred to in this paper as a "transaction". The word "transaction"...
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| description | This paper builds on a technical report written by Carl Hewitt and Henry Baker called "Actors and Continuous Functionals". What is called a "goal-oriented activity" in that paper will be referred to in this paper as a "transaction". The word "transaction" brings to mind an object closer in function to what we wish to present than does the word "activity". This memo, therefore, presents the definitions of a reply and a transaction as given in Hewitt and Baker's paper and points out some discrepancies in their definitions. That is, that the properties of transactions and replies as they were defined did not correspond with our intuitions, and thus the definitions should be changed. The issues of what should constitute a transaction are discussed, and a new definition is presented which eliminates the discrepancies caused by the original definitions. Some properties of the newly defined transactions are discussed, and it is shown that the results of Hewitt and Baker's paper still hold given the new definitions. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/56952019-04-09T15:45:09Z Towards a Better Definition of Transactions Kerns, Barbara S. transactions data bases actors interactive systems This paper builds on a technical report written by Carl Hewitt and Henry Baker called "Actors and Continuous Functionals". What is called a "goal-oriented activity" in that paper will be referred to in this paper as a "transaction". The word "transaction" brings to mind an object closer in function to what we wish to present than does the word "activity". This memo, therefore, presents the definitions of a reply and a transaction as given in Hewitt and Baker's paper and points out some discrepancies in their definitions. That is, that the properties of transactions and replies as they were defined did not correspond with our intuitions, and thus the definitions should be changed. The issues of what should constitute a transaction are discussed, and a new definition is presented which eliminates the discrepancies caused by the original definitions. Some properties of the newly defined transactions are discussed, and it is shown that the results of Hewitt and Baker's paper still hold given the new definitions. 2004-10-01T20:31:35Z 2004-10-01T20:31:35Z 1980-12-01 AIM-609 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/5695 en_US AIM-609 13 p. 3043265 bytes 2158451 bytes application/postscript application/pdf application/postscript application/pdf |
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| title | Towards a Better Definition of Transactions |
| title_full | Towards a Better Definition of Transactions |
| title_fullStr | Towards a Better Definition of Transactions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Towards a Better Definition of Transactions |
| title_short | Towards a Better Definition of Transactions |
| title_sort | towards a better definition of transactions |
| topic | transactions data bases actors interactive systems |
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