SIGMOD Record, Volume 41

Volume 41, Number 1, March 2012

Articles

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  Ya-Hui Chang:
  Optimizing XML twig queries with full-text predicates. 5-10

Surveys

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  Schahram Dustdar, Reinhard Pichler, Vadim Savenkov, Hong Linh Truong:
  Quality-aware service-oriented data integration: requirements, state of the art and open challenges. 11-19
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  Imene Mami, Zohra Bellahsene:
  A survey of view selection methods. 20-29

Distinguished profiles in data management

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  Marianne Winslett, Vanessa Braganholo:
  David Lomet speaks out: on database recovery, logs, versions and more... 30-39
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  Marianne Winslett, Vanessa Braganholo:
  Catriel Beeri speaks out: on his favorite pieces of work and on the importance of Sabbaticals. 40-49

Principles of database systems

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  Peter T. Wood:
  Query languages for graph databases. 50-60

Research centers

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  Institute for the management of information systems Athena research center. 61-66

Industrial perspectives

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  Fred Zemke:
  What.s new in SQL: 2011. 67-73

Open forum

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  Michael Grossniklaus, David Maier:
  The curriculum forecast for Portland: cloudy with a chance of data. 74-77

Volume 41, Number 2, June 2012

Principles of database systems

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  Mikolaj Bojanczyk:
  Algorithms for regular languages that use algebra. 5-14

Surveys

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  Anderson A. Ferreira, Marcos André Gonçalves, Alberto H. F. Laender:
  A brief survey of automatic methods for author name disambiguation. 15-26

Distinguished profiles in data management

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  Marianne Winslett, Vanessa Braganholo:
  Tamer Özsu speaks out: on journals, conferences, encyclopedias and technology. 27-36
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  Marianne Winslett, Vanessa Braganholo:
  Erich Neuhold speaks out: on industry research versus academic research, funding projects, and more. 37-46

Announcements

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  Philip A. Bernstein, Christian S. Jensen, Kian-Lee Tan:
  A call for surveys. 47

Volume 41, Number 3, September 2012

Principles of database systems

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  Grigoris Karvounarakis, Todd J. Green:
  Semiring-annotated data: queries and provenance? 5-14

Surveys

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  Edimar Manica, Carina F. Dorneles, Renata de Matos Galante:
  Handling temporal information in web search engines. 15-23

Distinguished profiles in data management

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  Marianne Winslett, Vanessa Braganholo:
  Ryan Johnson: recipient of the 2012 ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray dissertation award. 24-27

Research centers

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  Themis Palpanas, Yannis Velegrakis:
  dbTrento: the data and information management group at the University of Trento. 28-33

Industrial perspective

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  Krishna G. Kulkarni, Jan-Eike Michels:
  Temporal features in SQL: 2011. 34-43

Reports

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  Thomas Kissinger, Benjamin Schlegel, Matthias Böhm, Dirk Habich, Wolfgang Lehner:
  A high-throughput in-memory index, durable on flash-based SSD: insights into the winning solution of the SIGMOD programming contest 2011. 44-50
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  Jose-Norberto Mazón, Irene Garrigós, Florian Daniel, Malú Castellanos:
  Report of the international workshop on business intelligence and the web: BEWEB 2011. 51-53

Volume 41, Number 4, December 2012

Principles of database systems

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  Marcelo Arenas, Claudio Gutiérrez, Daniel P. Miranker, Jorge Pérez, Juan F. Sequeda:
  Querying Semantic Data on the Web? 6-17

Surveys

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  Fabio Grandi:
  Introducing an annotated bibliography on temporal and evolution aspects in the semantic web. 18-21

Systems and prototypes

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  Hyunjung Park, Richard Pang, Aditya G. Parameswaran, Hector Garcia-Molina, Neoklis Polyzotis, Jennifer Widom:
  An overview of the deco system: data model and query language; query processing and optimization. 22-27

Distinguished profiles in data management

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  Marianne Winslett, Vanessa Braganholo:
  Daniel Abadi speaks out. 28-32

Research centers

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  George Beskales, Gautam Das, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Ihab F. Ilyas, Felix Naumann, Mourad Ouzzani, Paolo Papotti, Jorge-Arnulfo Quiané-Ruiz, Nan Tang:
  The data analytics group at the qatar computing research institute. 33-38
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  Hua Lu, Torben Bach Pedersen, Simonas Saltenis, Bent Thomsen, Lone Leth Thomsen, Kristian Torp:
  Daisy: the center for data-intensive systems at Aalborg University. 39-44

Open forum

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  Charu C. Aggarwal:
  On the equivalence of PLSI and projected clustering. 45-50
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  Vagelis Hristidis:
  Challenges and communities of medical informatics research. 51-54

Workshop reports

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  Xin Luna Dong, Eduard Constantin Dragut:
  10th international workshop on quality in databases: QDB 2012. 55-59
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  Jan Hidders, Jacek Sroka, Paolo Missier:
  Report from the first workshop on scalable workflow enactment engines and technology (SWEET'12). 60-64
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  Xiaofeng Meng, Fusheng Wang:
  XLDB Asia 2012: the first extremely large databases conference at Asia. 65-67