TY - BOOK AU - Iman Mohamed Atef Abdelazim Helal AU - Ali Hamed Elbastawissy , AU - Osman Hegazy , TI - A design approach for active rules / PY - 2010/// CY - Cairo : PB - Iman Mohamed Atef Abdelazim Helal , KW - Active databases KW - ECA rules KW - Interval - based concept N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Computers and Information - Department of Information Systems; Issued also as CD N2 - Nowadays, rules make part of any software system starting from active databases and ending with real - time applications and sophisticated games . Meanwhile, an event can trigger many different rules according to the conditions controlling these rules . Although rules are part to many kinds of systems, their maintenance and update are not easy without affecting the whole application which is very expensive and sometimes very difficult UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -