The VLDB Journal, Volume 7

Volume 7, Number 1, February 1998

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  Jia Liang Han:
  Optimizing Relational Queries in Connection Hypergraphs: Nested Queries, Views, and Binding Propagations. 1-11
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  Eric N. Hanson, I-Cheng Chen, Roxana Dastur, Kurt Engel, Vijay Ramaswamy, Wendy Tan, Chun Xu:
  A Flexible and Recoverable Client/Server Database Event Notification System. 12-24
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  Ashish Mehta, James Geller, Yehoshua Perl, Erich J. Neuhold:
  The OODB Path-Method Generator (PMG) Using Access Weights and Precomputed Access Relevance. 25-47
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  Peter Scheuermann, Gerhard Weikum, Peter Zabback:
  Data Partitioning and Load Balancing in Parallel Disk Systems. 48-66

Volume 7, Number 2, May 1998

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  Naci Ishakbeyoglu, Z. Meral Özsoyoglu:
  Maintenance of Implication Integrity Constraints Under Updates to Constraints. 67-78
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  Stefan Deßloch, Theo Härder, Nelson Mendonça Mattos, Bernhard Mitschang, Joachim Thomas:
  Advanced Data Processing in KRISYS: Modeling Concepts, Implementation Techniques, and Client/Server Issues. 79-95
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  Serge Abiteboul, Sophie Cluet, Tova Milo:
  A Logical View of Structured Files. 96-114
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  Beng Chin Ooi, Kian-Lee Tan, Tat-Seng Chua, Wynne Hsu:
  Fast Image Retrieval Using Color-Spatial Information. 115-128

Volume 7, Number 3, August 1998

Special Issue on VLDB 1997

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  Praveen Seshadri:
  Enhanced Abstract Data Types in Object-Relational Databases. 130-140
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  Achim Kraiss, Gerhard Weikum:
  Integrated Document Caching and Prefetching in Storage Hierarchies Based on Markov-Chain Predictions. 141-162
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  Soumen Chakrabarti, Byron Dom, Rakesh Agrawal, Prabhakar Raghavan:
  Scalable Feature Selection, Classification and Signature Generation for Organizing Large Text Databases into Hierarchical Topic Taxonomies. 163-178
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  Prasan Roy, S. Seshadri, Abraham Silberschatz, S. Sudarshan, Srinivas Ashwin:
  Garbage Collection in Object-Oriented Databases Using Transactional Cyclic Reference Counting. 179-193
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  Wee Teck Ng, Peter M. Chen:
  Integrating Reliable Memory in Databases. 194-204

Volume 7, Number 4, December 1998

Special Issue on Multimedia Databases

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  M. Tamer Özsu, Stavros Christodoulakis:
  Introduction (Special Issue on Multimedia Databases). 205
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  Minos N. Garofalakis, Banu Özden, Abraham Silberschatz:
  On Periodic Resource scheduling for Continuous-Media Databases. 206-225
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  Haitao Jiang, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid:
  Spatial and Temporal Content-Based Access to Hypervideo Databases. 226-238
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  Raymond T. Ng, Paul Shum:
  Optimal Clip Ordering for Multi-Clip Queries. 239-252
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  Aya Soffer, Hanan Samet:
  Integrating Symbolic Images into a Multimedia Database System Using Classification and Abstraction Approaches. 253-274
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  Pavel Zezula, Pasquale Savino, Giuseppe Amato, Fausto Rabitti:
  Approximate Similarity Retrieval with M-Trees. 275-293
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  Nevzat Hurkan Balkir, Gultekin Özsoyoglu:
  Delivering Presentations from Multimedia Servers. 294-307