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This chapter introduces the main features of active database systems, outlines how these features can be exploited in a range of application domains, and presents a framework that is used later in the book to characterize the functionality of different active systems. The framework is the major contribution of the chapter, but an important side-effect of its presentation for the book is that much of the terminology associated with active database systems is introduced and defined.
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Paton, N.W., Díaz, O. (1999). Introduction. In: Paton, N.W. (eds) Active Rules in Database Systems. Monographs in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8656-6_1
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