SIGMOD Record, Volume 27

Volume 27, Number 1, March 1998

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  Michael J. Franklin:
  Editor's Notes. 2
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  Richard T. Snodgrass:
  Chair's Message. 3
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  Alberto O. Mendelzon:
  Information Director's Message. 4

Reports

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  Akmal B. Chaudhri:
  Workshop Report on Experiences Using Object Data Management in the Real-World. 5-10
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  Ron Musick, Christopher Miller:
  Report on the Second IEEE Metadata Conference (Metadata '97). 11-15

Invited Features

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  Praveen Seshadri:
  Predator: A Resource for Database Research. 16-20
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  Nick Roussopoulos:
  Materialized Views and Data Warehouses. 21-26

Articles

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  Bradley F. Burton, V. Wiktor Marek:
  Applications of the JAVA Programming Language to Database Management. 27-34
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  Stella Gatziu, Arne Koschel, Günter von Bültzingsloewen, Hans Fritschi:
  Unbundling Active Functionality. 35-40
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  Chan Man Kuok, Ada Wai-Chee Fu, Man Hon Wong:
  Mining Fuzzy Association Rules in Databases. 41-46
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  Vassilis J. Tsotras, Christian S. Jensen, Richard T. Snodgrass:
  An Extensible Notation for Spatiotemporal Index Queries. 47-53

Influential Papers

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  Richard T. Snodgrass:
  Reminiscences on Influential Papers. 54-57

Systems and Prototypes

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  Chialin Chang, Anurag Acharya, Alan Sussman, Joel H. Saltz:
  T2: A Customizable Parallel Database for Multi-Dimensional Data. 58-66
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  Pinar Koksal, Sena Nural Arpinar, Asuman Dogac:
  Workflow History Management. 67-75

Industry Perspectives

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  Frank Manola:
  Towards a Richer Web Object Model. 76-80
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  Arnon Rosenthal:
  Where Will Object Techonology Drive Data Administration? 81-87

Research Surveys

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  Philip A. Bernstein:
  Repositories and Object Oriented Databases. 88-96
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  Jiawei Han:
  Towards On-Line Analytical Mining in Large Databases. 97-107

Volume 27, Number 2, June 1998

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  Laura M. Haas, Ashutosh Tiwary:
  SIGMOD 1998, Proceedings ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, June 2-4, 1998, Seattle, Washington, USA. ACM Press 1998, ISBN 0-89791-995-5 [contents]

Volume 27, Number 3, September 1998

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  Michael J. Franklin:
  Editor's Notes. 2
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  Richard T. Snodgrass:
  Chair's Message. 3-5

Reports

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  Paolo Atzeni, Alberto O. Mendelzon:
  WebDB '98: International Workshop on the Web and Databases. 6-9
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  Alexander Borgida, Vinay K. Chaudhri, Martin Staudt:
  KRDB '98: The 5th International Workshop on Knowledge Representation Meets Databases. 10-15

Articles

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  King Lum Cheung, Ada Wai-Chee Fu:
  Enhanced Nearest Neighbour Search on the R-tree. 16-21
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  Timothy Griffin, Bharat Kumar:
  Algebraic Change Propagation for Semijoin and Outerjoin Queries. 22-27
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  David B. Lomet:
  B-tree Page Size When Caching is Considered. 28-32

Influential Papers

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  Richard T. Snodgrass, Hector Garcia-Molina, Tomasz Imielinski, David Maier, Patricia G. Selinger, Jeffrey D. Ullman:
  Reminiscences on Influential Papers. 33-35

Systems and Prototypes

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  Gerti Kappel, Werner Retschitzegger:
  The TriGS Active Object-Oriented Database System - An Overview. 36-41

Industry Perspectives

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  Kimberly Keeton, David A. Patterson, Joseph M. Hellerstein:
  A Case for Intelligent Disks (IDISKs). 42-52

Standards

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  Andrew Eisenberg, Jim Melton:
  Standards in Practice. 53-58

Research Surveys

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  Daniela Florescu, Alon Y. Levy, Alberto O. Mendelzon:
  Database Techniques for the World-Wide Web: A Survey. 59-74

Research Centers

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  Shih-Fu Chang, Luis Gravano, Gail E. Kaiser, Kenneth A. Ross, Salvatore J. Stolfo:
  Database Research at Columbia University. 75-80
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  David B. Lomet, Roger S. Barga, Surajit Chaudhuri, Per-Åke Larson, Vivek R. Narasayya:
  The Microsoft Database Research Group. 81-85

Volume 27, Number 4, December 1998

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  Michael J. Franklin:
  Editor's Notes. 2
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  Richard T. Snodgrass:
  Chair's Message. 3-4

Electronic Commerce

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  Asuman Dogac:
  Guest Editor's Introduction. 5-6
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  Martin Bichler, Arie Segev, J. Leon Zhao:
  Component-based E-Commerce: Assesment of Current Practices and Future Directions. 7-14
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  Sherif Danish:
  Building Database-driven Electronic Catalogs. 15-20
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  Bart Meltzer, Robert J. Glushko:
  XML and Electronic Commerce: Enabling the Network Economy. 21-24
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  Asuman Dogac, Ilker Durusoy, Sena Nural Arpinar, Nesime Tatbul, Pinar Koksal, Ibrahim Cingil, Nazife Dimililer:
  A Workflow-based Electronic Marketplace on the Web. 25-31
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  Nicholas R. Jennings, Timothy J. Norman, Peyman Faratin:
  ADEPT: An Agent-Based Approach to Business Process Management. 32-39
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  Benny Reich, Israel Ben-Shaul:
  A Componentized Architecture for Dynamic Electronic Markets. 40-47
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  Susanne Boll, Wolfgang Klas, Bernard Battaglin:
  Design and Implementation of RMP - A Virtual Electronic Market Place. 48-53
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  Alex G. Büchner, Maurice D. Mulvenna:
  Discovering Internet Marketing Intelligence through Online Analytical Web Usage Mining. 54-61
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  Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Jordi Herrera-Joancomartí:
  An Anonymous Electronic Commerce Scheme with an Off-Line Authority and Untrusted Agents. 62-67
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  Michael Christoffel, Sebastian Pulkowski, Bethina Schmitt, Peter C. Lockemann:
  Electronic Market: The Roadmap for University Libraries and Members to Survive in the Information Jungle. 68-73

Reports

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  Philip A. Bernstein, Michael L. Brodie, Stefano Ceri, David J. DeWitt, Michael J. Franklin, Hector Garcia-Molina, Jim Gray, Gerald Held, Joseph M. Hellerstein, H. V. Jagadish, Michael Lesk, David Maier, Jeffrey F. Naughton, Hamid Pirahesh, Michael Stonebraker, Jeffrey D. Ullman:
  The Asilomar Report on Database Research. 74-80

Influential Papers

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  Richard T. Snodgrass, Laura M. Haas, Alberto O. Mendelzon, Z. Meral Özsoyoglu, Jan Paredaens, Krithi Ramamritham, Nick Roussopoulos, Jennifer Widom, Philip S. Yu:
  Reminiscences on Influential Papers. 81-85

Industry Perspectives

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  David Ritter:
  The Middleware Muddle. 86-93

Standards

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  Andrew Eisenberg, Jim Melton:
  SQLJ Part 0, Now Known as SQL/OLB (Object-Language Bindings). 94-100