Marianne Winslett: Gerhard Weikum speaks out on why we should go for the grand challenges, why SQL is too powerful, the myth of precision, how to have a big research group in Germany, and more.
67-74
Volume 38, Number 2, June 2009
Articles
Jose-Norberto Mazón, Juan Trujillo: A hybrid model driven development framework for the multidimensional modeling of data warehouses!
12-17
Marianne Winslett: Peter Buneman speaks out on phylogeny, the integration of databases and programming languages, curated databases, british plumbing, the value of talking to users, when to ignore the literature, and more.
42-49
Event reports
Chee-Yong Chan, Neoklis Polyzotis: Report on the 10th international workshop on web information and data management (WIDM).
50-52
Sihem Amer-Yahia, Georgia Koutrika: Third int'l workshop on "personalized access, profile management, and context awareness in databases" (PersDB 2009).
43-45
Paolo Manghi, Pasquale Pagano, Yannis E. Ioannidis: Second workshop on very large digital libraries: in conjunction with the european conference on digital libraries Corfu, Greece, 2 october 2009.
46-48
Boon Thau Loo, Stefan Saroiu: 5th international workshop on networking meets databases (NetDB 2009).
49-50