Information Systems , Volume 20, 1995

Volume 20, Number 1, 1995

• Ezio Lefons, Antonio Merico, Filippo Tangorra:
  Analytical Profile Estimation in Database Systems. 1-20
  
• Norbert Kiesel, Andy Schürr, Bernhard Westfechtel:
  GRAS, a Graph-Oriented (Software) Engineering Database System. 21-51
  
• Santosh S. Venkatraman, Arun Sen:
  Formalization of an IS-A based Extended Nested Relation Data Model. 53-72
  

Volume 20, Number 2, 1995

• Wesley W. Chu, Alfonso F. Cardenas, Ricky K. Taira:
  KMeD: a Knowledge-based Multimedia Medical Distributed Database System. 75-96
  
• Amy J. Lee, Elke A. Rundensteiner, Spencer Thomas:
  An active OODB system for genome physical map assembly. 97-126
  
• Terence R. Smith, Jianwen Su, Amr El Abbadi, Divyakant Agrawal, Gustavo Alonso, Amitabh Saran:
  Computational modeling systems. 127-153
  
• Ling Tony Chen, R. Drach, M. Keating, S. Louis, Doron Rotem, Arie Shoshani:
  Efficient organization and access of multi-dimensional datasets on tertiary storage systems. 155-183
  

Volume 20, Number 3, 1995

• Maria L. Barja, Alvaro A. A. Fernandes, Norman W. Paton, M. Howard Williams, Andrew Dinn, Alia I. Abdelmoty:
  Design and implementation of ROCK & ROLL: a deductive object-oriented database system. 185-211
  
• G. H. W. M. Bronts, S. J. Brouwer, C. L. J. Martens, Henderik Alex Proper:
  A unifying object role modelling theory. 213-235
  
• Vassilis J. Tsotras, Nickolas Kangerlaris:
  The Snapshot Index: An I/O-optimal access method for timeslice queries. 237-260
  
• Heeseok Lee, Taeho Park:
  Allocating data and workload among multiple servers in a local area network. 261-269
  

Volume 20, Number 4, 1995

• Sjaak Brinkkemper, Anthony I. Wasserman, Gerard Wijers:
  Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Advanced Information Systems Engineering. 271-272
  
• Robert B. Jackson, David W. Embley, Scott N. Woodfield:
  Developing Formal Object-Oriented Requirements Specifications: A Model, Tool and Technique. 273-289
  
• Paul Johannesson:
  Representation and Communication - a Speech Act Based Approach to Information Systems Design. 291-303
  
• Christiaan Thieme, Arno Siebes:
  Guiding Schema Integration by Behavioural Information. 305-316
  
• Reidar Conradi, Chunnian Liu, Marianne Hagaseth:
  Planning Support for Cooperating Transactions in EPOS. 317-336
  
• Colette Rolland, Carine Souveyet, Mario Moreno:
  An Approach for Defining Ways-of-Working. 337-359
  

Volume 20, Number 5, 1995

• Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi:
  Ordered Sharing a New Lock Primitive for Database Systems. 361-392
  
• I-Min A. Chen, Victor M. Markowitz:
  An Overview of the Object-Protocol Model (OPM) and OPM Data Management Tools. 393-418
  
• Jiawei Han, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan:
  Evaluation of Regular Nonlinear Recursions by Deductive Database Techniques. 419-441
  

Volume 20, Number 6, September 1995

• Stavros Christodoulakis, Anastasia Analyti:
  Guest Editorial Special Issue on Multimedia Information Systems. 443-444
  
• Dwight J. Makaroff, Raymond T. Ng:
  Schemes for Implementing Buffer Sharing in Continuous-Media Systems. 445-464
  
• Banu Özden, Alexandros Biliris, Rajeev Rastogi, Abraham Silberschatz:
  A Disk-Based Storage Architecture for Movie on Demand Servers. 465-482
  
• Michael Vassilakopoulos, Yannis Manolopoulos:
  Dynamic Inverted Quadtree: A Structure for Pictorial Databases. 483-500
  
• Luiz Fernando Gomes Soares, Noemi de La Rocque Rodriguez, Marco A. Casanova:
  Nested Composite Nodes and Version Control in an Open Hypermedia System. 501-519
  
• Jean-Pierre Courtiat, Roberto C. de Oliveira, Luiz F. Rust da Costa Carmo:
  The RT-LOTOS Formal Specification of the Conditional Delivery Mechanism. 521-535
  

Volume 20, Number 7, November 1995

• Elisa Bertino, Sushil Jajodia, Pierangela Samarati:
  Database Security: Research and Practice. 537-556
  
• Athman Bouguettaya, Mike P. Papazoglou, Roger King:
  On Building a Hyperdistributed Database. 557-577
  
• Eliseo Clementini, Paolino Di Felice, Gianluca Califano:
  Composite Regions in Topological Queries. 579-594
  
• Jan Vanthienen, Geert Wets:
  Integration of the Decision Table Formalism with a Relational Environment. 595-616
  

Volume 20, Number 8, 1995

• Alexander Tuzhilin, James Clifford:
  On Periodicity in Temporal Databases. 619-639
  
• Ashish Gupta, José A. Blakeley:
  Using Partial Information to Update Materialized Views. 641-662
  
• Wei Sun, Yibei Ling, Clement T. Yu:
  Supporting Inheriance Using Subclass Assertions. 663-685
  
• J.-R. Jiang:
  The Column Protocol: A High Availability and Low Message Cost Solution for Managing Replicated Data. 687-696