Volume 8, Number 1, March 1985

Special Issue on DBMS Performance

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  Haran Boral: Letter from the Editor. 1
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  David J. DeWitt: Benchmarking Database Systems: Past Effords and Future Diretions. 2-9
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  Michael Stonebraker: Tips on Benchmarking Data Base Systems. 10-18
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  Paula B. Hawthorn: Variations on a Benchmark. 19-28
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  Steven A. Demurjian, David K. Hsiao: Benchmarking Database Systems in Multiple Systems in Multiple Backend Configurations. 29-39
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  Timothy C. K. Chou, Jim Gray: Transaction Acceleration. 40-52
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  Margaret H. Eich: Transaction Oriented Performance Analysis of Database Machines. 53-60

Volume 8, Number 2, June 1985

Special Issue on Concurrency and Recovery

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  C. Mohan: Letter from the Editor. 1
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  Dieter Gawlick, David Kinkade: Varieties of Concurrency Control in IMS/VS Fast Path. 3-10
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  Pat Helland: Transaction Monitoring Facility. 11-18
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  Alfred Z. Spector: The TABS Projects. 19-25
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  William E. Weihl: Atomic Data Types. 26-33
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  Arvola Chan, Sunil K. Sarin: Improving Availability and Performance of Distributed Database Systems. 34-41
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  C. Mohan: Concurrency and Recovery in Data Base Systems. 42-49
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  Theo Härder, Peter Peinl, Andreas Reuter: Performance Analysis of Synchronization and Recovery Schemes. 50-57
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  Rakesh Agrawal, Michael J. Carey: The Performance of Concurrency Control and Recovery Algorithms for Transaction-Oriented Database Systems. 58-67
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  Rafael Alonso, Daniel Barbará, Ricardo Cordon, Hector Garcia-Molina, Jack Kent, Frank M. Pittelli: Distributed Computing Research at Princeton. 68-75
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  Jo-Mei Chang: LAMBDA: A Distributed Database System for Local Area Networks. 76-83
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  Dennis Shasha: What Good are Concurrent Search Structure Algorithms for databases Anyway? 84-90
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  Nancy D. Griffeth: Reducing the Cost of Recovery from Transaction Failure. 91-98
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  Dale Skeen: Achieving High Availability in Partitioned Database Systems. 99-106

Volume 8, Number 3, September 1985

Special Issue on Natural Language and Databases

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  Yannis Vassiliou: Letter from the Editor. 1
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  Zenon W. Pylyshyn, Richard I. Kittredge: Databases and Natural Language Processing. 2-9
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  Paul A. Martin, Douglas E. Appelt, Barbara J. Grosz, Fernando C. N. Pereira: TEAM: An Experimental Transportable Natural-Language Interface. 10-22
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  Hubert Lehmann, Nikolaus Ott, Magdalena Zoeppritz: A Multilingual Interface to Databases. 23-33
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  Matthias Jarke, Jürgen Krause, Yannis Vassiliou, Edward A. Stohr, Jon A. Turner, Norman H. White: Evaluation and Assessment of a Domain-Independent Natural Language Query System. 34-44
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  Naomi Sager, Emile C. Chi, Carol Friedman, Margaret S. Lyman: Modeling Natural Language Data for Automatic Creation of a Database from Free-Text Input. 45-55
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  Zenon W. Pylyshyn: Alternatives to the Use of Natural Language in Interfacing Databases. 56-63
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  Craig W. Thompson: Menu-Based Natural Language Interfaces to Databases. 64-70

Volume 8, Number 4, December 1985

Special Issue on Object-Oriented Systems

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  Frederick H. Lochovsky: Letter from the Editor. 1
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  Dennis Tsichritzis: Object Species. 2-7
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  W. Bruce Croft: Task Management for an Intelligent Interface. 8-13
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  Carson C. Woo, Frederick H. Lochovsky: An Object-Based Approach to Modelling Office Work. 14-22
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  Stanley B. Zdonik: Object Management Systems for Design Environments. 23-30
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  Matts Ahlsen, Anders Björnerstedt, Christer Hulten: OPAL: An Object-Based System for Application Development. 31-40
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  Stephen P. Weiser: An Object-Oriented Protocol for Managing Data. 41-48
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  Oscar Nierstrasz: Hybrid: A Unified Object-Oriented System. 49-57
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  David Maier, Allen Otis, Alan Purdy: Object-Oriented Database Development at Servio Logic. 58-65
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  Nigel Derrett, William Kent, Peter Lyngbæk: Some Aspects of Operations in an Object-Oriented Database. 66-74
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  Gul Agha: A Message-Passing Paradigm for Object Management. 75-82
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  Dennis McLeod, Surjatini Widjojo: Object Management and Sharing in Autonomous, Distributed Data/Knowledge Bases. 83-89