SIGMOD Record, Volume 28

Volume 28, Number 1, March 1999

Web Edition

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  Michael J. Franklin:
  Editor's Notes. 2
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  Won Kim:
  Message from Editor-in-Chief, ACM Transactions on Database Systems. 2
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  Richard T. Snodgrass:
  Chair's Message. 3
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  Eric N. Hanson:
  Statement from the Treasurer. 4

Semantic Interoperability in Global Information Systems

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  Aris M. Ouksel, Amit P. Sheth:
  Semantic Interoperability in Global Information Systems: A Brief Introduction to the Research Area and the Special Section. 5-12
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  D. Scott Mackay:
  Semantic Integration of Environmental Models for Application to Global Information Systems and Decision-Making. 13-19
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  Eddy Forte, Florence Haenni, Ken Warkentyne, Erik Duval, Kris Cardinaels, E. Vervaet, Koen Hendrikx, Maria Wentland Forte, Florence Simillion:
  Semantic and Pedagogic Interoperability Mechanisms in the ARIADNE Educational Repository. 20-25
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  Kenneth P. Smith, Leo Obrst:
  Unpacking The Semantics of Source and Usage To Perform Semantic Reconciliation In Large-Scale Information Systems. 26-31
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  Arun Hampapur:
  Semantic Video Indexing: Approach and Issue. 32-39
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  Mike P. Papazoglou, Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers:
  Contextualizing the Information Space in Federated Digital Libraries. 40-46
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  Katia P. Sycara, Matthias Klusch, Seth Widoff, Jianguo Lu:
  Dynamic Service Matchmaking Among Agents in Open Information Environments. 47-53
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  Sonia Bergamaschi, Silvana Castano, Maurizio Vincini:
  Semantic Integration of Semistructured and Structured Data Sources. 54-59
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  Jerry Fowler, Brad Perry, Marian H. Nodine, Bruce Bargmeyer:
  Agent-Based Semantic Interoperability in InfoSleuth. 60-67
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  Avigdor Gal:
  Semantic Interoperability in Information Services: Experiencing with CoopWARE. 68-75

SBBD 1998

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  Mario A. Nascimento, Claudia Bauzer Medeiros:
  Report on the 13th Brazilian Symposium on Database Systems (SBBD'98). 76-77
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  Márcio Farias de Souza, Marcus Costa Sampaio:
  Efficient Materialization and Use of Views in Data Warehouses. 78-83

Articles

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  Stefano Ceri, Piero Fraternali, Stefano Paraboschi:
  Design Principles for Data-Intensive Web Sites. 84-89
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  Joseph K. P. Kuan, Paul H. Lewis:
  A Study on Data Point Search for HG-Trees. 90-96

Systems & Prototypes

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  Mark Roantree, John Murphy, Wilhelm Hasselbring:
  The OASIS Multidatabase Prototype. 97-103
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  Amit P. Sheth, Clemens Bertram, Kshitij Shah:
  VideoAnywhere: A System for Searching and Managing Distributed Video Assets. 104-109

Influential Papers

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  Richard T. Snodgrass, Serge Abiteboul, Sophie Cluet, Michael J. Franklin, Guy M. Lohman, David B. Lomet, Gultekin Özsoyoglu, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Kenneth A. Ross, Timos K. Sellis, Patrick Valduriez:
  Reminiscences on Influential Papers. 110-114

Industry Perspectives

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  Michael J. Carey, Leonard J. Seligman:
  NSF Workshop on Industrial/Academic Cooperation in Database Systems. 115-130

Standards

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  Andrew Eisenberg, Jim Melton:
  SQL: 1999, formerly known as SQL 3. 131-138

Volume 28, Number 2, June 1999

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  Alex Delis, Christos Faloutsos, Shahram Ghandeharizadeh:
  SIGMOD 1999, Proceedings ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, June 1-3, 1999, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. ACM Press 1999, ISBN 1-58113-084-8 [contents]

Volume 28, Number 3, September 1999

Web Edition

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  Michael J. Franklin:
  Editor's Notes. 2
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  Z. Meral Özsoyoglu:
  Vice Chair's Message. 2
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  Richard T. Snodgrass:
  Chair's Message. 3-6

Reports

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  Abraham Bernstein, Chrysanthos Dellarocas, Mark Klein:
  Towards Adaptive Workflow Systems, CSCW-98 Workshop Report. 7-8
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  Stefan Conrad, Wilhelm Hasselbring, Uwe Hohenstein, Ralf-Detlef Kutsche, Mark Roantree, Gunter Saake, Fèlix Saltor:
  Engineering Federated Information Systems: Report of EFIS '99 Workshop. 9-11
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  Andrew U. Frank, Stéphane Grumbach, Ralf Hartmut Güting, Christian S. Jensen, Manolis Koubarakis, Nikos A. Lorentzos, Yannis Manolopoulos, Enrico Nardelli, Barbara Pernici, Hans-Jörg Schek, Michel Scholl, Timos K. Sellis, Babis Theodoulidis, Peter Widmayer:
  Chorochronos: A Research Network for Spatiotemporal Database Systems. 12-21

Articles

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  Jihad Boulos, Kinji Ono:
  Cost Estimation of User-Defined Methods in Object-Relational Database Systems. 22-28
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  Arnon Rosenthal, Edward Sciore:
  First-Class Views: A Key to User-Centered Computing. 29-36
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  Stanley M. T. Yau, Hong Va Leong, Dennis McLeod, Antonio Si:
  On Multi-Resolution Document Transmission in Mobile Web. 37-42

Influential Papers

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  Richard T. Snodgrass:
  Reminiscences on Influential Papers. 43-48

Industry Perspectives

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  Prabhu Ram, Lyman Do, Pamela Drew:
  Distributed Transactions in Practice. 49-55

Systems & Prototypes

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  Mark Papiani, Jasmin L. Wason, Alistair N. Dunlop, Denis A. Nicole:
  A Distributed Scientific Data Archive Using the Web, XML and SQL/MED. 56-62

Research Surveys

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  Ruxandra Domenig, Klaus R. Dittrich:
  An Overview and Classification of Mediated Query Systems. 63-72

Research Centers

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  Le Gruenwald, Leonard Brown, Ravi A. Dirckze, Sylvain Guinepain, Carlos Sánchez, Brian Summers, Sirirut Vanichayobon:
  Database Research at the University of Oklahoma. 73-78

Volume 28, Number 4, December 1999

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  Michael J. Franklin:
  Editor's Notes. 2

Reports

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  Opher Etzion:
  Report on NGITS'99: The 4th International Workshop on Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems. 3-6
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  Stella Gatziu, Manfred A. Jeusfeld, Martin Staudt, Yannis Vassiliou:
  Design and Management of Data Warehouses: Report on the DMDW'99 Workshop. 7-10

Articles

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  Eric N. Hanson, Lloyd Noronha:
  Timer-Driven Database Triggers and Alerters: Semantics and a Challenge. 11-16
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  Tim Kempster, Colin Stirling, Peter Thanisch:
  Diluting ACID. 17-23
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  Leonid Libkin:
  Some Remarks on Variable Independence, Closure, and Orthographic Dimension in Constraint Databases. 24-28

Database Principles

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  Leonid Libkin:
  Database Principles Column - Introduction. 29
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  Serge Abiteboul:
  On Views and XML. 30-38

Influential Papers

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  Kenneth A. Ross, Surajit Chaudhuri, Gösta Grahne, H. V. Jagadish, Jan Van den Bussche, Moshe Y. Vardi:
  Reminiscences on Influential Papers. 39-41

Industry Perspectives

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  Kaippallimalil J. Jacob, Dennis E. Shasha:
  FinTime - A Financial Time Series Benchmark. 42-48

Systems & Prototypes

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  Ron Musick, Terence Critchlow:
  Practical Lessons in Supporting Large-Scale Computational Science. 49-57

Standards

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  Andrew Eisenberg, Jim Melton:
  SQLJ-Part 1: SQL Routines Using the Java Programming Language. 58-63

Research Surveys

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  Panos Vassiliadis, Timos K. Sellis:
  A Survey of Logical Models for OLAP Databases. 64-69

Announcements & Calls for Papers

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  The Active Database Central, ER2000, VLDB 2000, WISE 2000, Books, ACM DL. 70-76