9. SSDBM 1997: Olympia, Washington, USA
Yannis E. Ioannidis, David M. Hansen (Eds.): Ninth International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, Proceedings, August 11-13, 1997, Olympia, Washington, USA. IEEE Computer Society 1997 ISBN 0-8186-7952-2
Data Mining
Usama M. Fayyad: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Databases: Implications for Scientific Databases. 2-11
Jeffrey A. Goldman, Douglas Stott Parker Jr., Wesley W. Chu: Knowledge Discovery in an Earthquake Text Database: Correlation between Significant Earthquakes and the Time of Day. 12-21
Panel I
Estimation
Yun-Wu Huang, Ning Jing, Elke A. Rundensteiner: A Cost Model for Estimating the Performance of Spatial Joins Using R-trees. 30-38
Kathrin Anne Meier: Data Abstraction through Density Estimation by Storage Management. 39-47
Peter J. Haas: Large-Sample and Deterministic Confidence Intervals for Online Aggregation. 51-63
Database I/O
Jie-Bing Yu, David J. DeWitt: Query Pre-Execution and Batching in Paradise: A Two-Pronged Approach to the Efficient Processing of Queries on Tape-Resident Raster Images. 64-78
Szu-Wen Kuo, Marianne Winslett, Ying Chen, Yong Cho, Mahesh Subramaniam, Kent E. Seamons: Parallel Input/Output with Heterogeneous Disks. 79-90
Posters
Harold Geller, Sarah Conger, John Ertlschweiger, August Ryberg: A Prototype Metadata Database for Online Analytical Processing of Environmental Data. 92-95
Thomas H. Hinke, John A. Rushing, Shalini Kansal, Sara J. Graves, Heggere S. Ranganath: For Scientific Data Discovery: Why Can't the Archive be More Like the Web? 96-99
Vera Kamp, L. Sitzmann, Frank Wietek: A Spatial Data Cube Concept for Supporting Data Analysis in Environmental Epidemiology. 100-103
Karla Massey, Larry Kerschberg, George Michaels: VANILLA: A Dynamic Data Model for a Generic Scientific Database. 104-107
Laurance J. Milask, Traci Guynup, Christopher Hammel, Larry Kerschberg, George Michaels: A Forest Canopy Research Database and Analysis System. 108-111
Software Demonstrations
I-Min A. Chen, Anthony Kosky, Victor M. Markowitz, Ernest Szeto: Developing and Accessing Scientific Databases with the Object-Protocol (OPM) Data Management Tools. 114-115
Yuechen Chi, Carlos R. Mechoso, Michael Stonebraker, Keith Sklower, Richard Troy, Richard R. Muntz, Edmond Mesrobian: ESMDIS: Earth System Model Data Information System. 116-118
Yannis E. Ioannidis, Miron Livny, Anastassia Ailamaki, Arvind Ranganathan, Andrew Therber, Maria Yuin, Martha Anderson, John Norman: Managing Soil Science Experiments Using ZOO. 121-124
Statistical Tools
R. Douglas Martin, Vikram Chalana: The S-PLUS DataBlade for INFORMIX-Universal Server: The Natural Wedding of an Object Relational Database with an Object-Oriented Data Analysis Engine. 126-130
Statistical Databases

Ljiljana Brankovic, Peter Horák, Mirka Miller, Graham Wrightson: Usability of Compromise-Free Statistical Databases. 144-154
Tsan-sheng Hsu, Ming-Yang Kao: Security Problems for Statistical Databases with General Cell Suppressions. 155-164
Metadata
Francis P. Bretherton, William L. Hibbard: Metadata: A Case Study from the Environmental Sciences. 166-172
Metadata and Standards

Andrew Westlake: A Simple Structure for Statistical Meta-Data. 186-195
Udo Nink: Using the STEP Standard and Databases in Science. 196-207
Systems I
Michael Stiber, Gwen A. Jacobs, Deborah Swanberg: LOGOS: A Computational Framework for Neuroinformatics Research. 212-222
Judith Bayard Cushing, Justin Laird, Emir Pasalic, Elizabeth Kutter, Tim Hunkapiller, Frank Zucker, David P. Yee: Beyond Interoperability - Tracking and Managing the Results of Computational Applications. 223-236
I-Min A. Chen, Anthony Kosky, Victor M. Markowitz, Ernest Szeto: Constructing and Maintaining Scientific Database Views in the Framework of the Object-Protocol Model. 237-248
Panel II
Larry Kerschberg, Menas Kafatos, George Michaels, John Cherniasky: Scientific Databases: A Challenge in Interdisciplinary Eduction (Panel). 250
Systems II
Silvia Nittel, Richard R. Muntz, Edmond Mesrobian: geoPOM: A Heterogeneous Geoscientific Persistent Object System. 252-263
Menas Kafatos, Xiaoyang Sean Wang, Heather Weir, Zuotao Li, Paul Hertz, Henry Wolf, Ruixin Yang, Duane King, Dan Ziskin: The Virtual Domain Application Data Center: Serving Interdisciplinary Earth Scientists. 264-276



