Volume 13, Number 1, March 1990

Special Issue on Document Retrieval

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  Dik Lun Lee: Letter from the Issue Editor. 1
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  Gerard Salton: Full Text Information Processing Using the Smart System. 2-9
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  Philip J. Smith: Document Retrieval: Expertise in Identifying Relevant Documents. 10-16
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  W. Bruce Croft: Towards Intelligent Information Retrieval: An Overview of IR Research at U. Mass. 17-24
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  Christos Faloutsos: Signature-Based Text Retrieval Methods: A Survey. 25-32
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  Craig Stanfill: Information Retrieval Using Parallel Signature Files. 33-40
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  Lee A. Hollaar: Special-Purpose Hardware For Text Searching: Past Experience, Future Potential. 41-47
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  Michael McGill, Martin Dillon: Library Research Activities at OCLC Online Computer Library Center. 48-55
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  Wan-Lik Lee, Darrell Woelk: Integration of Text Search with ORION. 56-62

Volume 13, Number 2, June 1990

Special Issue on Database Connectivity

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  Won Kim: Letter from the Editor-in-Chief. 1
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  Larry Kerschberg: Letter from the TC Chair. 1
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  David S. Reiner: Letter from the Issue Editor: From Theory to Practice in Heterogeneous DBMS Access. 2-3
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  Dennis McLeod: INTERBASE: An Approach to Controllel Sharing among Autonomous, Heterogeneous Database Systems. 4-9
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  Stuart E. Madnick, Michael Siegel, Y. Richard Wang: The Composite Information System Laboratory (CISL) Project at MIT. 10-15
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  Bipin C. Desai, Richard Pollock: MDAS: Multiple Schema Integration Approch. 16-21
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  Alfonso F. Cardenas: Pictorial/Visual Access to Multimedia/Heterogeneous Databases. 22-27
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  Amar Gupta, Stuart E. Madnick: A Taxonomy for Classifying Commercial Approaches to Information Integration in Heterogeneous Environments. 28-33
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  Wayne V. Duquaine: Mainframe DBMS Connectivity via a General Client/Server Interface. 34-39
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  Dave Simonson, Dave Benningfield: INGRES Gateways: Transparent Heterogeneous SQL Access. 40-45
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  Peter Harris, David S. Reiner: The Lotus DataLens Approach to Heterogeneous Database Connectivity. 46-51

Volume 13, Number 3, September 1990

Special Issue on Statistical and Scientific Databases
Short versions of six papers and two panel descriptions from the Fifth International Conference on Statistical and Scientific Databases (SSDBM 1990)

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  Z. Meral Özsoyoglu: Letter from the Issue Editor. 1
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  Zbigniew Michalewicz: Current Research in Statistical and Scientific Databases: the V SSDBM. 2-3
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  Andrew Westlake, I. Kleinschmidt: The Implementation of Area and Membership Retrievals in Point Geography Using SQL. 4-11
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  Maurizio Rafanelli, Arie Shoshani: STORM: A Statistical Object Representation Model. 12-18
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  Zbigniew Michalewicz, Jia-Jie Le, Keh-Wei Chen: A Genetic Algorithm for Statistical Database Security. 19-26
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  Himawan Gunadhi, Arie Segev: Temporal Query Optimization in Scientific Databases. 27-34
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  Maurizio Rafanelli, Fabrizio L. Ricci: A Visual Interface for Statistical Entities. 35-43
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  Gultekin Özsoyoglu, Wen-Chi Hou, Adegbemiga Ola: A Scientific DBMS for Programmable Logic Controllers. 44-50
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  Scientific Data Management for Human Genome Appications (panel). 51
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  Statistical Expert Systems (Panel). 52-54
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  James C. French, Anita K. Jones, John L. Pfaltz: A Summary of the NSF Scientific Database Workshop. 55-61

Volume 13, Number 4, December 1990

Directions For Future Database Research and Development. Joint Issue of ACM SIGMOD Record 19(4) December 1990 and IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin

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  Won Kim: Letter from the Issue Editor. 1-2
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  Peter Scheuermann, Clement T. Yu: Report on the Workshop on Heterogenous Database Systems held at Northwest University, Evanston, Illinois, December 11-13, 1989. 3-11
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  Hector Garcia-Molina, Bruce G. Lindsay: Research Directions for Distributed Databases. 12-17
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  Michael Stonebraker: Architecture of Future Data Base Systems. 18-23
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  François Bancilhon, Won Kim: Object-Oriented Database Systems: In Transition. 24-28
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  Amihai Motro: Accomodating Imprecision in Database Systems: Issues and Solutions. 29-34
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  Oliver Günther, Alejandro P. Buchmann: Research Issues in Spatial Databases. 35-42
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  Teresa F. Lunt, Eduardo B. Fernández: Database Security. 43-50
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  Sang Hyuk Son: Real-Time Database Systems: A New Challenge. 51-57
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  Shalom Tsur: Data Dredging. 58-63