An annotated bibliography on active databases (short version)

This is a bibliography on active databases and active database systems which reflects the various research activities in this field. We compiled this bibliography for our own use, but hopefully it might be useful to other people as well. All papers that appear in the following list, are generally accessible.We do not claim that the bibliography is exhaustive and covers the complete range of literature that deals with activities. We decided to focus on central approaches, concepts, methods, and systems in the area of active databases. It does not contain entries in the area of "pure" real-time, object-oriented, temporal, and deductive databases. But we did include publications related to those approaches, as long as they discuss active databases.We divided the material into various sections following our own personal perception of the field. The sections provide an overview on different projects in the area of active databases, followed by sections on relevant research topics. Each section contains a few remarks followed by a list of cross references into the annotated bibliography. Papers might appear in more than one section in case they discuss different topics relevant to different sections.Additionally, when relevant we also included unpublished, but publicly available material. For those papers we included information how to obtain them from the authors or from the organizations where the were produced.The beauty of our work is the individual annotation to almost all publications. Due to space limitations we are forced to leave out those annotations in the version published here. For a complete annotated bibliography we refer to the entry in our WWW server.The effort to build up such a bibliography is an endless task. Since we believe it now provides a comprehensive overview on the existing literature in the field, we decided to publish it. However, we invite all readers to add remarks, corrections, updates, additions (including further annotations).Part of this work was done while we were associated with the FORWISS Institute of the Technical University of Munich. We would like to thank our student, Markus Blaschka, who compiled many references during his master's thesis.