SIGMOD Record, Volume 25

Volume 25, Number 1, March 1996

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  Jennifer Widom:
  Editor's Notes. 2

Special Section on Advances in Real-Time Database Systems

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  Azer Bestavros:
  Advances in Real-Time Database Systems Research. 3-7
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  Krithi Ramamritham, Rajendran M. Sivasankaran, John A. Stankovic, Donald F. Towsley, Ming Xiong:
  Integrating Temporal, Real-Time, and Active Databases. 8-12
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  Jayant R. Haritsa, S. Seshadri:
  Real-Time Index Concurrency Control. 13-17
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  Tei-Wei Kuo, Aloysius K. Mok:
  Real-Time Database - Similarity Semantics and Resource Scheduling. 18-22
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  Özgür Ulusoy, Alejandro P. Buchmann:
  Exploiting Main Memory DBMS Features to Improve Real-Time Concurrency Control Protocols. 23-25
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  Kwei-Jay Lin, Shing-Shan Peng:
  Enhancing External Consistency in Real-Time Transactions. 26-28
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  Sang Hyuk Son, Rasikan David, Bhavani Thuraisingham:
  Improving Timeliness in Real-Time Secure Database Systems. 29-33
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  Brad Adelberg, Ben Kao, Hector Garcia-Molina:
  Overview of the STanford Real-time Information Processor (STRIP). 34-37
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  Sten Andler, Jörgen Hansson, Joakim Eriksson, Jonas Mellin, Mikael Berndtsson, Bengt Eftring:
  DeeDS Towards a Distributed and Active Real-Time Database System. 38-40

Annotated Bibliographies

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  Vassilis J. Tsotras, Anil Kumar:
  Temporal Database Bibliography Update. 41-51

Reports

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  Abraham Silberschatz, Michael Stonebraker, Jeffrey D. Ullman:
  Database Research: Achievements and Opportunities Into the 21st Century. 52-63
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  Mikael Berndtsson, Jörgen Hansson:
  Workshop Report: The First International Workshop on Active and Real-Time Database Systems (ARTDB-95). 64-66

Research Surveys

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  Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Gonzalo Navarro:
  Integrating Contents and Structure in Text Retrieval. 67-79

Systems and Prototypes

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  Eric Freeman, David Gelernter:
  Lifestreams: A Storage Model for Personal Data. 80-86

Standards Activities

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  Andrew E. Wade:
  Object Query Standards. 87-92

Research Centers

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  Deepak B. Phatak, Nandlal L. Sarda, S. Seshadri, S. Sudarshan:
  Database Research at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. 93-98
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  Susan Darling Urban, Suzanne W. Dietrich, Forouzan Golshani:
  Database Research at Arizona State University. 99-104

Industry News

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  John Gaffney:
  Illustra's Web DataBlade Module. 105-112
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  MQSeries and CICS Link for Lotus Notes. 113-118

Funding News

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  Xiaolei Qian:
  Shutdown, Budget, and Funding. 119-122

Volume 25, Number 2, June 1996

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  H. V. Jagadish, Inderpal Singh Mumick:
  Proceedings of the 1996 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, June 4-6, 1996. ACM Press 1996, ISBN 978-0-89791-794-0 [contents]

Volume 25, Number 3, September 1996

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  Jennifer Widom:
  Editor's Notes. 2

Articles

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  Rafael Camps:
  Domains, Relations and Religious Wars. 3-9
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  Justin Zobel, Alistair Moffat, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao:
  Guidelines for Presentation and Comparison of Indexing Techniques. 10-15
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  Michael G. Norman, Thomas Zurek, Peter Thanisch:
  Much Ado About Shared-Nothing. 16-21
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  Carsten Andreas Gerlhof, Alfons Kemper, Guido Moerkotte:
  On the Cost of Monitoring and Reorganization of Object Bases for Clustering. 22-27
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  Waqar Hasan, Daniela Florescu, Patrick Valduriez:
  Open Issues in Parallel Query Optimization. 28-33
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  Lionel Brunie, Harald Kosch:
  Control Strategies for Complex Relational Query Processing in Shared Nothing Systems. 34-39

Reports

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  ACT-NET - The Active Database Management System Manifesto: A Rulebase of ADBMS Features. 40-49
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  Azer Bestavros, Kwei-Jay Lin, Sang Hyuk Son:
  Report on First International Workshop on Real-Time Database Systems. 50-52

Systems and Prototypes

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  Alexandros Biliris, Euthimios Panagos:
  The BeSS Object Storage Manager: Architecture Overview. 53-58

Research Centers

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  Asuman Dogac:
  Middle East Technical University Software Research and Development Center. 59-63

Industry News

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  George Colliat:
  OLAP, Relational, and Multidimensional Database Systems. 64-69
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  Albert D'Andrea, Phil Janus:
  UniSQL's Next-Generation Object-Relational Database Management System. 70-76

Funding News

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  Xiaolei Qian:
  Scientist's Called Upon to Take Actions. 77-80

Volume 25, Number 4, December 1996

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  Jennifer Widom:
  Editor's Notes. 2

Technical Correspondence and Notes

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  C. J. Date:
  A Response to R. Camps' Article "Domains, Relations and Religious Wars". 3-5
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  Hugh Darwen:
  In Reply to Domains, relations and Religious Wars. 6-7

Articles

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  Maurizio Rafanelli, Antonia Bezenchek, Leonardo Tininini:
  The Aggregate Data Problem: A System for their Definition and Management. 8-13

Special Section on Information Visualization

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  Tiziana Catarci, Isabel F. Cruz:
  Information Visualization, Guest Editors' Foreword. 14-15
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  Yannis E. Ioannidis:
  Dynamic Information Visualization. 16-20
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  Egemen Tanin, Richard Beigel, Ben Shneiderman:
  Incremental data Structures and Algorithms for Dynamic Query Interfaces. 21-24
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  Christopher Ahlberg:
  Spotfire: An Information Exploration Environment. 25-29
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  Jessie B. Kennedy, Kenneth J. Mitchell, Peter J. Barclay:
  A Framework for Information Visualisation. 30-34
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  Daniel A. Keim:
  Pixel-oriented Database Visualizations. 35-39
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  Giuseppe Santucci, Laura Tarantino:
  To Table or Not to Table: a Hypertabular Answer. 40-44
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  Masum Z. Hasan, Alberto O. Mendelzon, Dimitra Vista:
  Applying database Visualization to the World Wide Web. 45-49
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  Kenneth C. Cox, Stephen G. Eick, Taosong He:
  3D Geographic Network Displays. 50-54

Reports

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  Amit P. Sheth, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Stef Joosten, Marek Rusinkiewicz, Walt Scacchi, Jack C. Wileden, Alexander L. Wolf:
  Report from the NSF Workshop on Workflow and Process Automation in Information Systems. 55-67

Systems and Prototypes

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  Malcolm P. Atkinson, Laurent Daynès, Mick J. Jordan, Tony Printezis, Susan Spence:
  An Orthogonally Persistent Java. 68-75
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  Jeff Sidell:
  The Mariposa Distributed Database Management System. 76-80

Standards Activities

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  Andrew Eisenberg:
  New Standard for Stored Procedures in SQL. 81-88

Industry News

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  Ramesh Bhashyam:
  TCP-D - The Challenges, Issues and Results. 89-93

Funding News

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  Xiaolei Qian:
  New Programs at DARPA and NSF. 94-98