IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, Volume 29

Volume 29, Number 1, March 2006

• David B. Lomet:
  Letter from the Editor-in-Chief. 1
  
• Sam Lightstone:
  Letter from Chair of Working Group on Self-Managing Database Systems. 2-3
  
• Minos N. Garofalakis, Dan Suciu:
  Letter from the Special Issue Editors. 4
  
• Omar Benjelloun, Anish Das Sarma, Chris Hayworth, Jennifer Widom:
  An Introduction to ULDBs and the Trio System. 5-16
  
• Todd J. Green, Val Tannen:
  Models for Incomplete and Probabilistic Information. 17-24
  
• Christopher Re, Nilesh N. Dalvi, Dan Suciu:
  Query Evaluation on Probabilistic Databases. 25-31
  
• Lise Getoor:
  An Introduction to Probabilistic Graphical Models for Relational Data. 32-39
  
• T. S. Jayram, Rajasekar Krishnamurthy, Sriram Raghavan, Shivakumar Vaithyanathan, Huaiyu Zhu:
  Avatar Information Extraction System. 40-48
  
• Tanzeem Choudhury, Matthai Philipose, Danny Wyatt, Jonathan Lester:
  Towards Activity Databases: Using Sensors and Statistical Models to Summarize People's Lives. 49-58
  
• Minos N. Garofalakis, Kurt P. Brown, Michael J. Franklin, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Daisy Zhe Wang, Eirinaios Michelakis, Liviu Tancau, Eugene Wu, Shawn R. Jeffery, Ryan Aipperspach:
  Probabilistic Data Management for Pervasive Computing: The Data Furnace Project. 57-63
  
• AnHai Doan, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Fei Chen, Pedro DeRose, Yoonkyong Lee, Robert McCann, Mayssam Sayyadian, Warren Shen:
  Community Information Management. 64-72
  

Volume 29, Number 2, June 2006

• David B. Lomet:
  Letter from the Editor-in-Chief. 1
  
• Betty Salzberg, David B. Lomet, Erich J. Neuhold:
  Letter from the TCDE Nominating Committee. 2
  
• Nick Koudas:
  Letter from the Special Issue Editor. 3-
  
• Indrajit Bhattacharya, Lise Getoor:
  Collective Entity Resolution In Relational Data. 4-12
  
• Omar Benjelloun, Hector Garcia-Molina, Hideki Kawai, Tait Eliott Larson, David Menestrina, Qi Su, Sutthipong Thavisomboon, Jennifer Widom:
  Generic Entity Resolution in the SERF Project. 13-20
  
• Felix Naumann, Alexander Bilke, Jens Bleiholder, Melanie Weis:
  Data Fusion in Three Steps: Resolving Schema, Tuple, and Value Inconsistencies. 21-31
  
• Laure Berti-Equille:
  Contributions to Quality-Aware Online Query Processing. 32-42
  
• Tamraparni Dasu, Theodore Johnson, Amit Marathe:
  Database Exploration Using Database Dynamics. 43-59
  
• Surajit Chaudhuri, Venkatesh Ganti, Raghav Kaushik:
  Data Debugger: An Operator-Centric Approach for Data Quality Solutions. 60-66
  
• Diego Milano, Monica Scannapieco, Tiziana Catarci:
  Structure-aware XML Object Identification. 67-74
  

Volume 29, Number 3, September 2006

• David B. Lomet:
  Letter from the Editor-in-Chief. 1
  
• Betty Salzberg, David B. Lomet, Erich J. Neuhold:
  TC on Data Engineering: Election of Chair for 2007-2008. 2
  
• Per-Åke Larson:
  Position Statement and Biography. 2
  
• Sam Lightstone:
  Letter from Chair of the Working Group on Self-Managing Database Systems. 4-5
  
• Anastassia Ailamaki:
  Letter from the Special Issue Editor. 6
  
• Sanjay Agrawal, Nicolas Bruno, Surajit Chaudhuri, Vivek R. Narasayya:
  AutoAdmin: Self-Tuning Database SystemsTechnology. 7-15
  
• Sam Lightstone, Guy M. Lohman, Peter J. Haas, Volker Markl, Jun Rao, Adam J. Storm, Maheswaran Surendra, Daniel C. Zilio:
  Making DB2Products Self-Managing: Strategies and Experiences. 16-23
  
• Benoît Dageville, Karl Dias:
  Oracle's Self-Tuning Architecture and Solutions. 24-31
  
• Cesare Pautasso, Thomas Heinis, Gustavo Alonso:
  JOpera: Autonomic Service Orchestration. 32-39
  
• Dushyanth Narayanan, Eno Thereska, Anastassia Ailamaki:
  Challenges inbuilding a DBMS Resource Advisor. 40-46
  
• Lin Qiao, Balakrishna R. Iyer, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi:
  Automated Storage Management with QoS Guarantee in Large-scale Virtualized Storage Systems. 47-54
  
• Michael Abd-El-Malek, William V. Courtright II, Chuck Cranor, Gregory R. Ganger, James Hendricks, Andrew J. Klosterman, Michael P. Mesnier, Manish Prasad, Brandon Salmon, Raja R. Sambasivan, Shafeeq Sinnamohideen, John D. Strunk, Eno Thereska, Matthew Wachs, Jay J. Wylie:
  Early experiences on the journey towards self-* storage. 55-62
  

Volume 29, Number 4, December 2006

• David B. Lomet:
  Letter from the Editor-in-Chief. 1
  
• Dan Suciu:
  Letter from the Special Issue Editor. 2
  
• Philip A. Bernstein, Nishant Dani, Badriddine Khessib, Ramesh Manne, David Shutt:
  Data Management Issues in Supporting Large-Scale Web Services. 3-9
  
• Raghu Ramakrishnan, Andrew Tomkins, Ravi Kumar:
  Content, Metadata, and Behavioral Information: Directions for Yahoo! Research. 10-18
  
• Jayant Madhavan, Alon Y. Halevy, Shirley Cohen, Xin Luna Dong, Shawn R. Jeffery, David Ko, Cong Yu:
  Structured Data Meets the Web: A Few Observations. 19-26
  
• Alfredo Alba, Varun Bhagwan, Mike Ching, Alex Cozzi, Raj Desai, Daniel Gruhl, Kevin Haas, Linda Kato, Jeff Kusnitz, Bryan Langston, Ferdy Nagy, Linda A. Nguyen, Jan Pieper, Savitha Srinivasan, Anthony Stuart, Renjie Tang:
  A funny thing happened on the way to a billion .... 27-36
  
• Eugene Agichtein:
  Web Information Extraction and User Modeling: Towards Closing the Gap. 37-44
  
• Michael J. Cafarella, Oren Etzioni, Dan Suciu:
  Structured Queries Over Web Text. 45-51