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| DC Field | Value | Language |
|---|---|---|
| dc.creator | Kerns, Barbara S. | - |
| dc.date | 2004-10-01T20:31:35Z | - |
| dc.date | 2004-10-01T20:31:35Z | - |
| dc.date | 1980-12-01 | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-10-09T02:40:53Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2013-10-09T02:40:53Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2013-10-09 | - |
| dc.identifier | AIM-609 | - |
| dc.identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/5695 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/1721 | - |
| dc.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. | - |
| dc.format | 13 p. | - |
| dc.format | 3043265 bytes | - |
| dc.format | 2158451 bytes | - |
| dc.format | application/postscript | - |
| dc.format | application/pdf | - |
| dc.language | en_US | - |
| dc.relation | AIM-609 | - |
| dc.subject | transactions | - |
| dc.subject | data bases | - |
| dc.subject | actors | - |
| dc.subject | interactive systems | - |
| dc.title | Towards a Better Definition of Transactions | - |
| Appears in Collections: | MIT Items | |
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