Information Systems , Volume 21, 1996

Volume 21, Number 1, March 1996

Special Issue on Real-Time Database Systems

Patrick E. O'Neil, Özgür Ulusoy:
Guest Editorial: Real-Time Database Systems. 1-2
Shiby Thomas, S. Seshadri, Jayant R. Haritsa:
Integrating Standard Transactions in Firm Real-Time Database Systems. 3-28
Anindya Datta, Sarit Mukherjee, Prabhudev Konana, Igor R. Viguier, Akhilesh Bajaj:
Multiclass Transaction Scheduling and Overload Management in Firm Real-Time Database Systems. 29-54
Rohan F. M. Aranha, Venkatesh Ganti, Srinivasa Narayanan, C. R. Muthukrishnan, S. T. S. Prasad, Krithi Ramamritham:
Implementation of a Real-Time Database System. 55-74
Azer Bestavros, Spyridon Braoudakis:
Value-cognizant Speculative Concurrency Control for Real-Time Databases. 75-101
Yu-Wei Chen, Le Gruenwald:
Effects of Deadline Propagation on Scheduling Nested Transactions in Distributed Real-Time Database Systems. 103-124

Advanced Information Systems Engineering - Special Issue on CAiSE 1995

Antonina Dattolo, Vincenzo Loia:
Collaborative Version Control in an Agent-Based Hypertext Environment. 127-145
Holger Herbst:
Business Rules in Systems Analysis: a Meta-Model and Repository System. 147-166
, Corrigendum: Inf. Syst. 21(6): 549(1996)
Antoni Olivé, Maria-Ribera Sancho:
Validating Conceptual Specifications Through Model Execution. 167-186
Otto Rauh, Eberhard Stickel:
Standard Transformations for the Normalization of ER Schemata. 187-208
Matti Rossi, Sjaak Brinkkemper:
Complexity Metrics for Systems Development Methods and Techniques. 209-227

Renate Motschnig-Pitrik:
Requirements and Comparison of View Mechanisms for Object-Oriented Databases. 229-252
Wan-Sup Cho, Chong-Mok Park, Kyu-Young Whang, Sang Hyuk Son:
A New Method for Estimating the Number of Objects Satisfying an Object-Oriented Query Involving Partial Participation of Classes. 253-267
Eric N. Hanson, Theodore Johnson:
Selection Predicate Indexing for Active Databases Using Interval Skip Lists. 269-298
Guoqing Chen, Etienne E. Kerre, Jacques Vandenbulcke:
Normalization Based on Fuzzy Functional Dependency in a Fuzzy Relational Data Model. 299-310

Christian S. Jensen, Richard T. Snodgrass:
Semantics of Time-Varying Information. 311-352
Kamalakar Karlapalem, Shamkant B. Navathe, Mostafa H. Ammar:
Optimal Redesign Policies to Support Dynamic Processing of Applications on a Distributed Relational Database System. 353-367
Valery Soloviev:
An Incremental Memory Allocation Method for Mixed Workloads. 369-386

Bernhard Seeger:
An Analysis of Schedules for Performing Multi-Page Requests. 387-407
Alexander Thomasian:
A More Realistic Locking Model and its Analysis. 409-430
Mengchi Liu:
ROL: A Deductive Object Base Language. 431-457

Andrew E. Johnson, Farshad Fotouhi:
Adaptive Clustering of Hypermedia Documents. 459-473
Duen-Ren Liu, Shashi Shekhar:
Partitioning Similarity Graphs: A Framework for Declustering Problems. 475-496
Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Eduardo F. Barbosa, Nivio Ziviani:
Hierarchies of Indices for Text Searching. 497-514
Natur Team:
Defining Visions in Context: Models, Processes and Tools for Requirements Engineering. 515-547
Holger Herbst:
Corrigendum: Business Rules in Systems Analysis: a Meta-Model and Repository System. 549
, ->Inf. Syst. 21(2): 147-166(1996)

Juhani Iivari, Rudy Hirschheim:
Analyzing Information Systems Development a Comparison and Analysis of Eight IS Development Approaches. 551-575
Peter Triantafillou:
Availability and Performance Limitations in Multidatabases. 577-593
Nenad Jukic, Susan V. Vrbsky:
Feasibility of Aggregates in Time Constrained Queries. 595-614

Levent V. Orman:
Queries = Examples + Counterexamples. 615-635
Wilhelm Rödder, Gabriele Kern-Isberner:
Representation and Extraction of Information by Probabilistic Logic. 637-652
Stephen K. Kwan, Doron Rotem:
Analysis of Tradeoff Between Data Accuracy and Performance of Databases. 653-672