Distributed and Parallel Databases, Volume 4

Volume 4, Number 1, January 1996

Chris Bates, Innes Jelly, Jon M. Kerridge:
Modelling Test Data for Performance Evaluation of Large Parallel Database Machines. 5-23
Arthur J. Bernstein, Philip M. Lewis:
Transaction Decomposition Using Transaction Semantics. 25-47
Csaba J. Egyhazy, Konstantinos P. Triantis, Bharat Bhasker:
A Query Processing Algorithm for a System of Heterogeneous Distributed Databases. 49-79
Paul W. P. J. Grefen, Jan Flokstra:
Extending a Multi-Set Relational Algebra to a Parallel Environment. 81-99

Yaw-Huei Chen, Stanley Y. W. Su:
Implementation and Evaluation of Parallel Query Processing Algorithms and Data Partitioning Heuristics in Object-Oriented Databases. 107-142
Arbee L. P. Chen, Pauray S. M. Tsai, Jia-Ling Koh:
Identifying Object Isomerism in Multidatabase Systems. 143-168
Meichun Hsu, Charly Kleissner:
ObjectFlow: Towards a Process Management Infrastructure. 169-194

Databases and Mobile Computing

Daniel Barbará, Ravi Jain, Narayanan Krishnakumar:
Guest Editors' Introduction. 203-204
Wang-Chien Lee, Dik Lun Lee:
Using Signature Techniques for Information Filtering in Wireless and Mobile Environments. 205-227
Gustavo Alonso, Roger Günthör, Mohan Kamath, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi, C. Mohan:
Exotica/FMDC: A Workflow Management System for Mobile and Disconnected Clients. 229-247
Antonio Massari, Susan Weissman, Panos K. Chrysanthis:
Supporting Mobile Database Access through Query by Icons. 249-269
George Y. Liu, Gerald Q. Maguire Jr.:
A Mobility-Aware Dynamic Database Caching Scheme for Wireless Mobile Computing and Communications. 271-288

Andre B. Bondi, Victoria Jin:
A Performance Model of a Design for a Minimally Replicated Distributed Database for Database-Driven Telecommunications Services. 295-317
Yuri Breitbart, Radek Vingralek, Gerhard Weikum:
Load Control in Scalable Distributed File Structures. 319-354
Piotr Krychniak, Marek Rusinkiewicz, Andrzej Cichocki, Amit P. Sheth, Gomer Thomas:
Bounding the Effects of Compensation under Relaxed Multi-level Serializability. 355-374