SIGMOD Record, Volume 17

Volume 17, Number 1, March 1988

• Margaret H. Eich:
  Editor's Notes. 1
  
• David J. DeWitt:
  Chair's Message. 1
  
• Sang Hyuk Son:
  Real-Time Database Systems: Issues and Approaches, Guest Editor's Introduction. 2-3
  
• John A. Stankovic, Wei Zhao:
  On Real-Time Transactions. 4-18
  
• Mukesh Singhal:
  Issues and Approaches to Design of Real-Time Database Systems. 19-33
  
• Kwei-Jay Lin, Ming-Ju Lin:
  Enhancing Availability in Distributed Real-Time Databases. 34-43
  
• Günter von Bültzingsloewen, Klaus R. Dittrich, Cirano Iochpe, Rolf-Peter Liedtke, Peter C. Lockemann, Michael Schryro:
  KARDAMOM - A Dataflow Database Machine For Real-Time Applications. 44-50
  
• Umeshwar Dayal, Barbara T. Blaustein, Alejandro P. Buchmann, Upen S. Chakravarthy, Meichun Hsu, R. Ledin, Dennis R. McCarthy, Arnon Rosenthal, Sunil K. Sarin, Michael J. Carey, Miron Livny, Rajiv Jauhari:
  The HiPAC Project: Combining Active Databases and Timing Constraints. 51-70
  
• Robert K. Abbott, Hector Garcia-Molina:
  Scheduling Real-time Transactions. 71-81
  
• Lui Sha, Ragunathan Rajkumar, John P. Lehoczky:
  Concurrency Control for Distributed Real-Time Databases. 82-98
  
• Calls for Papers. 99-103
  

Volume 17, Number 2, June 1988

• Margaret H. Eich:
  Editor's Notes. 1
  
• Bin Jiang:
  Deadlock Detection is Really Cheap. 2-13
  
• Christopher J. Shaw:
  Application and Database Design - Putting If Off. 14-22
  
• User Facility Task Group of the ANSI X3/SPARC Database System Study Group: Reference Model for DBMS User Facility. 23-52
  
• C. J. Date:
  Defining Data Types in a Database Language - A Proposal for Adding Date and Time Support to SQL. 53-76
  
• Sakti P. Ghosh, Chih-Chen Lin, Timos K. Sellis:
  Implementation of a Prolog-INGRES Interface. 77-88
  
• Arthur M. Keller, Gio Wiederhold:
  Concurrent Use of B-trees with Variable-Length Entries. 89-90
  
• Haim Kilov:
  Book Review of: Database Analysis and Design by I. T. Hawryszkiewicz. 91-94
  
• Satish M. Thatte:
  Report on the Object-Oriented Database Workshop: Implementation Aspects (OOPSLA'87 Workshop). 95-107
  
• Fionn Murtagh:
  Conference Report: Astronomy from Large Databases: Scientific Objectives and Methodological Approaches. 108-111
  
• National Bureau of Standards Information Management Directions Workshop 5. 112
  

Volume 17, Number 3, September 1988

Volume 17, Number 4, December 1988

• Margaret H. Eich:
  Editor's Notes. 1
  
• David J. DeWitt:
  Chair's Message. 2
  
• Arie Segev:
  New Editor's Notes. 3-4
  
• Pictures from SIGMOD 1988 and VLDB 1988. 5-6
  
• Fèlix Saltor:
  Upcoming Database Conferences/Workshops. 7-8
  
• Announcements and Calls for Papers: TKDE, ER 89, VLDB 89, SIGMOD 89, DB Query Optimization 89, SIGFORTH 89, Algorithms and Data Structures 89. 9-15
  
• John Atkins:
  A Note on Minimal Covers. 16-21
  
• Jacques Guyot:
  A Process Model for Data Bases. 22-30
  
• Ulrich Schiel:
  the Problem of Identification. 31-36
  
• Maureen E. McLaughlin, Kathryn Bates Hill, Douglas D. Brown, Mark A. Rogers, Alissa M. Howell, Pamela P. Hatch:
  An Integrated Methodology and Toolset for Database Design. 37-55
  
• T. H. Merrett, Louis Hamel:
  Dynamic Multipaging in Even Less Space. 56-61
  
• Sang Hyuk Son:
  Replicated Data Management in Distributed Database Systems. 62-69
  
• Gottfried Vossen, Jim Yacabucci:
  An Extension of the Database Language SQL to Capture More Relational Concepts. 70-78
  
• H. W. Buff:
  Why Codd's Rule No. 6 Must be Reformulated. 79-80