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Topic: database agents

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Topic:
change notification
Topic:
computer as an intelligent agent
Topic:
consistency testing
Topic:
database change management
Topic:
database queries, joins, and relational algebra
Topic:
execution of hypertext nodes
Topic:
immediate computation
Topic:
information retrieval by searching
Topic:
managing changes in hypertext
Topic:
procedure valued variables

Summary

Active agents can be defined for a database that detect abnormalities and generate implications. Constraints and derived information can be seen as database agents. (cbb 1/90)
Subtopic: constraints, consistency checking up

Quote: PROMIS includes procedures to detect abnormalities in the patient record which may need active attention or management [»waltPL11_1979]
Quote: use executables for semantic constraints on roles and relationships [»kentW_1978]
Quote: executable objects in a database can enforce constraints or generate implications [»kentW_1978]
Quote: handle exceptional subclasses and instances by exception handling triggered by the exceptional data [»borgA10_1986]

Subtopic: news agents, useful information up

Quote: databases should alert designers about useful information, but most Hypertext systems are passive [»fiscG5_1989]
Quote: agents are semi-intelligent programs that carry out your goals; e.g., personal news reporters that scour the networks for relevant items [»lindO_1992]
Quote: with pervasive networking will want access to a trillion resources; use agents

Subtopic: automatic categorization up

Quote: Agenda can assign conditions for automatically adding items to a category [»kaplSJ7_1990]

Subtopic: theorems for derived data up

QuoteRef: bobrDG9_1974 ;;167 theorems to delete corresponding data [derived data relationships] whenever a datum is deleted (erase, opposite of antecedent)
QuoteRef: bobrDG9_1974 ;;167 theorem to build resultant data items from a new datum (antecedent)

Related Topics up

Topic: change notification (19 items)
Topic: computer as an intelligent agent (49 items)
Topic: consistency testing (60 items)
Topic: database change management (12 items)
Topic: database queries, joins, and relational algebra (34 items)
Topic: execution of hypertext nodes (21 items)
Topic: immediate computation (8 items)
Topic: information retrieval by searching (35 items)
Topic: managing changes in hypertext (21 items)
Topic: procedure valued variables
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