Everything about Transaction processing

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Transaction processingA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: A Reputation-Based Mechanism for Transaction Processing in Blockchain SystemsInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Accounting information systemsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: System M: a transaction processing testbed for memory resident dataCited 43 times
5. Go sideways: ACIDA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Concurrency controlA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• System M: a transaction processing testbed for memory resident data

  K. Salem, H. Garcia-Molina · 1990 · IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering · 43 citations

• Performance evaluation of transaction processing coupling architectures for handling system dynamics

  P.S. Yu, A. Dan · 1994 · IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems · 21 citations

• A Distributed System for Real-Time Transaction Processing

  G. Le Lann · 1981 · Computer · 16 citations

• The information management system IMS/VS, Part V: Transaction processing facilities

  W. C. McGee · 1977 · IBM Systems Journal · 10 citations

• A hybrid distributed centralized system structure for transaction processing

  B. Ciciani, D.M. Dias, B.R. Iyer · 1990 · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 9 citations

• Role of Information Technology in Transaction Processing System

  Engr. Faizullah Mahar · 2003 · Information Technology Journal · 7 citations

• A multi‐user operating system for transaction processing, written in Concurrent Pascal

  H. S. M. Kruijer · 1982 · Software: Practice and Experience · 6 citations

• Model theory approach to transaction processing system development

  Yasuhiko Takahara, Yongmei Liu, Xiaohong Chen · 2005 · International Journal of General Systems · 5 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• A Reputation-Based Mechanism for Transaction Processing in Blockchain Systems

  Jiarui Zhang, Yukun Cheng, Xiaotie Deng · 2022 · IEEE Transactions on Computers · 29 citations

• Effectiveness of an Innovative ICT Transaction Processing System with Data Analytics

  Sari Pilot, Elmer Buenavides · 2025 · International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research · 1 citations

• Optimization of Transaction Processing System (TPS) Using RAD With FAST Method

  Yusuf Sofyan, Wirda Fitriani, Heri Kurniawan · 2022 · International Journal of Science, Technology & Management · 1 citations

• Natural Language Processing-Based Layered Reconciliation System for Financial Transaction Analysis

  Dilara Hazırlar, Özlem Avcı, Mesut Tekir · 2025 · Orclever Proceedings of Research and Development · 1 citations

• Exploring Improvement of Business Performance of Transaction Processing System in Retail Sector

  Na Xie · 2024 · Advances in Economics, Management and Political Sciences · 1 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Accounting information systemsJames L. Boockholdt · 1991
• Principles of transaction processingPhilip A. Bernstein, Eric Newcomer · 1997
• Building accounting systemsJames T. Perry · 1995
• Distributed transaction processingPrentice-Hall, inc., X Open · 1996
• Atomic transactionsNancy A. Lynch, Michael L. Merritt · 1993
• Multilevel secure transaction processingVijay Atluri, Vijay Atluri · 1999
• Ontology-based query processing for global information systemsEduardo Mena, Arantza Illarramendi · 2001
• Workflow and process automationAndrzej Cichocki, Helal A. Ansari · 1997

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