GTE Distributed Object Computing Group: Technical Reports

On June 30, 2000 GTE Corporation and Bell Atlantic Corporation merged to form Verizon Communications. At that time GTE Laboratories was merged into the Bell Atlantic Technology Organization to form Verizon Laboratories.

The Distributed Object Computing Group existed in GTE Laboratories from fall 1987 until the fall of 1995. For most of that time the group was headed by Dr. Michael L. Brodie with principal researchers: Frank Manola, Sandra Heiler, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Alejandro P. Buchmann, Gail Mitchell, and Jennifer L. Welch. Visiting scientists included Peter C. Lockemann, Cris Pedregal Martin, M. Tamer Özsu, Ole J. Anfindsen, and Daniel Rios-Zertuche. The experimental researchers included Dinesh K. Desai, Mark F. Hornick, Benjamin Hurwitz, Piotr Krychniak, Joe D. Morrison, Emon Mortazavi, Farshad Nayeri, and Vivek Virmani with part time members Jintae Lee, Himanshu Sinha, Eric Wiseblatt, and Kay Chang.

The primary focus of the Distributed Object Computing Group within GTE Laboratories was the Distributed Object Management (DOM) project. The DOM project conducted research into object-oriented technology for integrating heterogeneous, autonomous, distributed (HAD) computer systems/resources. Major research areas included: interoperable object models; interoperable, distributed object architectures; heterogeneous, extended transaction models; and information requests in HAD environments. The group experimented in these areas using the prototype DOM system that it developed over five years. This technology was based on ideas from a number of technical areas including distributed, object-oriented, databases, multi-database systems, operating systems, and programming languages.

1995

[GEOR95a]

Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Mark F. Hornick, Amit P. Sheth: An Overview of Workflow Management: From Process Modeling to Workflow Automation Infrastructure. Distributed and Parallel Databases 3(2): 119-153(1995)

[MANO95]

Frank Manola:
Integrating Object-Oriented Applications and Middleware with Relational Databases.

1994

[GEOR94a]

Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Marek Rusinkiewicz, Witold Litwin: Chronological Scheduling of Transactions with Temporal Dependencies. VLDB J. 3(1): 1-28(1994)

[GEOR94b]

Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Mark F. Hornick, Piotr Krychniak, Frank Manola: Specification and Management of Extended Transactions in a Programmable Transaction Environment. ICDE 1994: 462-473

[GEOR94c]

Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Marek Rusinkiewicz, Amit P. Sheth: Using Tickets to Enforce the Serializability of Multidatabase Transactions. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 6(1): 166-180(1994)

[GEOR94d]

Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Mark F. Hornick: A Framework for Enforceable Specification of Extended Transaction Models and Transaction Workflows. Int. J. Cooperative Inf. Syst. 3(3): 599-617(1994)

[MANO94a]

Frank Manola:
An Evaluation of Object-Oriented DBMS Developments: 1994 Edition.

1993

[BROD93a]

Michael L. Brodie: The Promise of Distributed Computing and the Challenges of Legacy Information Systems. DS-5 1992: 1-31

[BROD93b]

Michael L. Brodie, Michael Stonebraker: DARWIN: On the Incremental Migration of Legacy Information Systems. DOM Technical Report, TR-0222-10-92-165, GTE Laboratories Inc., March 1993. Early version of Michael L. Brodie, Michael Stonebraker: Migrating Legacy Systems: Gateways, Interfaces, and the Incremental Approach. Morgan Kaufmann 1995, ISBN 1-55860-330-1

[GEOR93a]

Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Mark F. Hornick, Piotr Krychniak: An Environment for the Specification and Management of Extended Transactions in DOMS. RIDE-IMS 1993: 253-257

[GEOR93e]

Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Mark F. Hornick, Frank Manola, Michael L. Brodie, Sandra Heiler, Farshad Nayeri, Benjamin Hurwitz: An Extended Transaction Environment for Workflows in Distributed Object Computing. IEEE Data Eng. Bull. 16(2): 24-27(1993)

[LOCK93a]

Peter C. Lockemann: Aggregate Behavior of Loosely Coupled Objects: Architectural Principle for Heterogeneous and Distributed Systems. GTE Laboratories Inc., TC-0218-11-93-165, November 1993 [not available]

[MANO93a]

Frank Manola: The Need for Object Model Interoperability. Workshop Report, Workshop on Application Integration Architectures, Dallas, Texas, February 1993

[MANO93c]

Frank Manola, Sandra Heiler:
A 'RISC' Object Model for Object System Interoperation: Concepts and Applications.

[MANO93d]

Frank Manola:
MetaObject Protocol Concepts for a RISC Object Model.

[MITC93a]

Gail Mitchell: Extensible Query Processing in an Object-Oriented Database. PhD Thesis, Brown University Technical Report No. CS-93-16, May 1993. Available in hard copy from Brown University, Computer Science Department, and postscript format via anonymous ftp from wilma.cs.brown.edu as file techreports/93/cs93-16.ps.Z

[NAYE93c]

Farshad Nayeri, Benjamin Hurwitz:
Experiments with Dispatching in a Distributed Object System.

[NAYE93d]

Farshad Nayeri: Addressing Component Interoperability in the OMG Object Model. position paper submitted to ORB Implementors' Workshop, San Francisco, June 1993

[NAYE93e]

Farshad Nayeri, Benjamin Hurwitz, Frank Manola: Generalizing Dispatching in a Distributed Object System. ECOOP 1994: 450-473

[NICO93a]

John R. Nicol, C. Thomas Wilkes, Frank Manola: Object Orientation in Heterogeneous Distributed Computing Systems. IEEE Computer 26(6): 57-67(1993)

[VENT93]

Vincent Ventrone, Sandra Heiler: Some Practical Advice for Dealing with Semantic Heterogeneity in Federated Database Systems. Submitted to USENIX

1992

[BGR92]

Raj Kumar Batra, Marek Rusinkiewicz, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos: A Decentralized Deadlock-Free Concurrency Control Method for Multidatabase Transactions. ICDCS 1992: 72-79

[BRO92b]

Michael L. Brodie, John Mylopoulos: Artificial Intelligence and Databases: Dawn, Midday, or Sunset? Canadian Information Processing /Informatique Canadienne, July/August 1992

[BROD92c]

Michael L. Brodie, Stefano Ceri: On Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems. International Journal of Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems 1, 2 September 1992

[BUCH92]

Alejandro P. Buchmann, M. Tamer Özsu, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Frank Manola: A Transaction Model for Active Distributed Object Systems. Database Transaction Models for Advanced Applications 1992: 123-158

[GEOR92]

Dimitrios Georgakopoulos: A Framework for Dynamic Specification of Extended Multidatabase Transactions and Interdatabase Dependencies. Proceedings of Third Workshop on Heterogeneous Databases and Semantic Interoperability, Boulder, February 1992

[GEOR92b]

Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Mark F. Hornick: An Environment for the Specification and Management of Extended Transactions and Workflows in DOMS. TR-0218-09-92-165, GTE Laboratories Inc., October 1992 [not available]

[HEIL92]

Sandra Heiler, Sara Haradhvala, Stanley B. Zdonik, Barbara T. Blaustein, Arnon Rosenthal: A Flexible Framework for Transaction Management in Engineering Environments. Database Transaction Models for Advanced Applications 1992: 87-121

[MANO92]

Frank Manola, Sandra Heiler, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Mark F. Hornick, Michael L. Brodie: Distributed Object Management. Int. J. Cooperative Inf. Syst. 1(1): 5-42(1992)

[MANO92a]

Frank Manola, Sandra Heiler: An Approach to Interoperable Object Models. IWDOM 1992: 304-308

1991

[BREI91]

Yuri Breitbart, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Marek Rusinkiewicz, Abraham Silberschatz: On Rigorous Transaction Scheduling. IEEE Trans. Software Eng. 17(9): 954-960(1991)

[BROD91]

Michael L. Brodie: Distributed Object Management Research. Proceedings of the Second Telecommunications Information Networking Architecture (TINA) Workshop, pp. 297-303, Chantilly, France, March 1991

[BROD91a]

Michael L. Brodie, Mark F. Hornick: An Interoperability Development Environment For Intelligent Information Systems. Proceedings of the International Workshop on the Development of Intelligent Information Systems, Niagara-on-the-Lake, April 1991

[BUCH91]

Alejandro P. Buchmann, M. Tamer Özsu, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos:
Towards a Transaction Management System for DOM.

[GEOR91a]

Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Marek Rusinkiewicz, Amit P. Sheth: On Serializability of Multidatabase Transactions Through Forced Local Conflicts. ICDE 1991: 314-323

[GEOR91b]

Dimitrios Georgakopoulos: Multidatabase Recoverability and Recovery. RIDE-IMS 1991: 348-355

[HEIL91]

Sandra Heiler: Extended Data Type Support in Distributed DBMS Products: A Technology Assessment and Forecast. TR-170-12-91-165. GTE Laboratories Incorporated, December 1991. [Not available]

[HORN91]

Mark F. Hornick, Joe D. Morrison, Farshad Nayeri:
Integrating Heterogeneous, Autonomous, Distributed Applications Using the DOM Prototype.

[MANO91]

Frank Manola, Umeshwar Dayal: An Overview of PDM: An Object-Oriented Data Model. On Object-Oriented Database System 1991: 13-28

[MANO91a]

Frank Manola:
Object Data Language Facilities for Multimedia Data Types.

[MANO91b]

Frank Manola: The Third-Generation/OODBMS Manifesto, Commercial version. SIGMOD Record 20(4): 91(1991)

[RUSI91]

Marek Rusinkiewicz, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos: Multidatabase Transactions: Impediments and Opportunities. COMPCON 1991:

[VENT91]

Vincent Ventrone, Sandra Heiler: Semantic Heterogeneity as a Result of Domain Evolution. SIGMOD Record 20(4): 16-20(1991)

1990

[BREI90]

Yuri Breitbart, D. Georgakopoulos, and M. Rusinkiewicz, A. Silberschatz, "Rigorous Scheduling in Multidatabase Systems," Proceedings of 2nd Workshop in Heterogeneous Databases and Semantic Interoperability, Tulsa, November 1990

[BROD90]

Michael L. Brodie, François Bancilhon, Craig Harris, Michael Kifer, Yoshifumi Masunaga, Earl D. Saberdoti, Katsumi Tanaka: Next Generation Database Management Systems Technology (Panel). DOOD 1989: 335-346

[HEIL90]

Sandra Heiler, Frank Manola, Stanley B. Zdonik: An Object-Oriented Database Approach to Federated Systems. (unpublished paper), 1990. [Not available]

[MANO90]

Frank Manola: Object-Oriented Knowledge Bases. AI Expert, 5(3), 5(4), March and April 1990

[MANO90a]

Frank Manola, Alejandro P. Buchmann: A Functional/Relational Object-Oriented Model for Distributed Object Management: Preliminary Description. TM-0331-11-90-165. GTE Laboratories Incorporated, December 1990. [Not available]

[MANO90b]

Frank Manola, Mark F. Hornick, Alejandro P. Buchmann:
Object Data Model Facilities for Multimedia Data Types.

[MYLO90]

John Mylopoulos, Michael L. Brodie: Knowledge Bases and Databases: Current Trends and Future Directions. IS/KI 1990: 153-180

[RUSI90]

Rusinkiewicz, M., D. Georgakopoulos, and R. Thomas, "RDS: A Primitive for the Maintenance of Replicated Data Objects," Proceedings of Second IEEE Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, Dallas, pp. 658-667, December 1990

[SILB90]

Abraham Silberschatz, Michael Stonebraker, Jeffrey D. Ullman: Database Systems: Achievements and Opportunities - The "Lagunita" Report of the NSF Invitational Workshop on the Future of Database System Research held in Palo Alto, California, February 22-23, 1990. SIGMOD Record 19(4): 6-22(1990) also appeared as Abraham Silberschatz, Michael Stonebraker, Jeffrey D. Ullman: Database Systems: Achievements and Opportunities. Commun. ACM 34(10): 110-120(1991)

[STON90]

Michael Stonebraker, Lawrence A. Rowe, Bruce G. Lindsay, Jim Gray, Michael J. Carey, Michael L. Brodie, Philip A. Bernstein, David Beech: Third-Generation Database System Manifesto - The Committee for Advanced DBMS Function. SIGMOD Record 19(3): 31-44(1990)

[ZERT90]

Daniel Rios-Zertuche, Alejandro P. Buchmann: Execution Models for Active Database Systems: A Comparison. TM-0238-01-90-165, GTE Laboratories Incorporated, January 1990 [not available]

1989

[BROD89]

Michael L. Brodie, Daniel G. Bobrow, Victor R. Lesser, Stuart E. Madnick, Dennis Tsichritzis, Carl Hewitt: Future Artificial Intelligence requirements For Intelligent Database Systems - Panel Report. Expert Database Conf. 1988: 45-62

[BROD89a]

Michael L. Brodie, John Mylopoulos: Future Intelligent Information Systems: AI and Database Technologies Working Together. in M. Brodie, J. Mylopoulos, (eds. and contributors), Readings in Artificial Intelligence and Databases, Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo, CA, 1989

[MANO89]

Frank Manola: Applications of Object-Oriented Database Technology in Knowledge-Based Integrated Information Systems. in A. Gupta (ed.), Integration of Information Systems: Bridging Heterogeneous Databases, New York, IEEE Press, 1989, 126-134

[MANO89a]

Frank Manola:
Object Model Capabilities For Distributed Object Management.

[MANO89b]

Frank Manola: An Evaluation of Object-Oriented DBMS Developments. TR-0066-10-89-165, GTE Laboratories Incorporated, October 1989. [Not available; superceded by [MANO94a]]

[WELC89]

Jennifer L. Welch, A. Prasad Sistla: Object-Based Concurrency Control and Recovery Mechanisms. TM-0150-06-89-165, GTE Laboratories Incorporated, June 1989. [Not available]

1988

[MANO88]

Frank Manola:
Distributed Object Management Technology.

1987

[MANO87]

Frank Manola: A Personal View of DBMS Security. DBSec 1987: 23-34 , TN CS1.1, GTE Laboratories Incorporated, December 1987