SIGMOD Record, Volume 28

Volume 28, Number 1, March 1999

• Michael J. Franklin:
  Editor's Notes. 2
  
• Won Kim:
  Message from Editor-in-Chief, ACM Transactions on Database Systems. 2
  
• Richard T. Snodgrass:
  Chair's Message. 3
  
• Eric N. Hanson:
  Statement from the Treasurer. 4
  

• Aris M. Ouksel, Amit P. Sheth:
  Semantic Interoperability in Global Information Systems: A Brief Introduction to the Research Area and the Special Section. 5-12
  
• D. Scott Mackay:
  Semantic Integration of Environmental Models for Application to Global Information Systems and Decision-Making. 13-19
  
• Eddy Forte, Florence Haenni, Ken Warkentyne, Erik Duval, Kris Cardinaels, E. Vervaet, Koen Hendrikx, Maria Wentland Forte, Florence Simillion:
  Semantic and Pedagogic Interoperability Mechanisms in the ARIADNE Educational Repository. 20-25
  
• Ken Smith, Leo Obrst:
  Unpacking The Semantics of Source and Usage To Perform Semantic Reconciliation In Large-Scale Information Systems. 26-31
  
• Arun Hampapur:
  Semantic Video Indexing: Approach and Issue. 32-39
  
• Mike P. Papazoglou, Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers:
  Contextualizing the Information Space in Federated Digital Libraries. 40-46
  
• Katia P. Sycara, Matthias Klusch, Seth Widoff, Jianguo Lu:
  Dynamic Service Matchmaking Among Agents in Open Information Environments. 47-53
  
• Sonia Bergamaschi, Silvana Castano, Maurizio Vincini:
  Semantic Integration of Semistructured and Structured Data Sources. 54-59
  
• Jerry Fowler, Brad Perry, Marian H. Nodine, Bruce Bargmeyer:
  Agent-Based Semantic Interoperability in InfoSleuth. 60-67
  
• Avigdor Gal:
  Semantic Interoperability in Information Services: Experiencing with CoopWARE. 68-75
  

• Mario A. Nascimento, Claudia Bauzer Medeiros:
  Report on the 13th Brazilian Symposium on Database Systems (SBBD'98). 76-77
  
• Márcio Farias de Souza, Marcus Costa Sampaio:
  Efficient Materialization and Use of Views in Data Warehouses. 78-83
  

• Stefano Ceri, Piero Fraternali, Stefano Paraboschi:
  Design Principles for Data-Intensive Web Sites. 84-89
  
• Joseph K. P. Kuan, Paul H. Lewis:
  A Study on Data Point Search for HG-Trees. 90-96
  

• Mark Roantree, John Murphy, Wilhelm Hasselbring:
  The OASIS Multidatabase Prototype. 97-103
  
• Amit P. Sheth, Clemens Bertram, Kshitij Shah:
  VideoAnywhere: A System for Searching and Managing Distributed Video Assets. 104-109
  

• Richard T. Snodgrass, Serge Abiteboul, Sophie Cluet, Michael J. Franklin, Guy M. Lohman, David B. Lomet, Gultekin Özsoyoglu, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Kenneth A. Ross, Timos K. Sellis, Patrick Valduriez:
  Reminiscences on Influential Papers. 110-114
  

• Michael J. Carey, Leonard J. Seligman:
  NSF Workshop on Industrial/Academic Cooperation in Database Systems. 115-130
  

• Andrew Eisenberg, Jim Melton:
  SQL: 1999, formerly known as SQL 3. 131-138
  

Volume 28, Number 2, June 1999

Volume 28, Number 3, September 1999

• Michael J. Franklin:
  Editor's Notes. 2
  
• Z. Meral Özsoyoglu:
  Vice Chair's Message. 2
  
• Richard T. Snodgrass:
  Chair's Message. 3-6
  

• Abraham Bernstein, Chrysanthos Dellarocas, Mark Klein:
  Towards Adaptive Workflow Systems, CSCW-98 Workshop Report. 7-8
  
• Stefan Conrad, Wilhelm Hasselbring, Uwe Hohenstein, Ralf-Detlef Kutsche, Mark Roantree, Gunter Saake, Fèlix Saltor:
  Engineering Federated Information Systems: Report of EFIS '99 Workshop. 9-11
  
• Andrew U. Frank, Stéphane Grumbach, Ralf Hartmut Güting, Christian S. Jensen, Manolis Koubarakis, Nikos A. Lorentzos, Yannis Manolopoulos, Enrico Nardelli, Barbara Pernici, Hans-Jörg Schek, Michel Scholl, Timos K. Sellis, Babis Theodoulidis, Peter Widmayer:
  Chorochronos: A Research Network for Spatiotemporal Database Systems. 12-21
  

• Jihad Boulos, Kinji Ono:
  Cost Estimation of User-Defined Methods in Object-Relational Database Systems. 22-28
  
• Arnon Rosenthal, Edward Sciore:
  First-Class Views: A Key to User-Centered Computing. 29-36
  
• Stanley M. T. Yau, Hong Va Leong, Dennis McLeod, Antonio Si:
  On Multi-Resolution Document Transmission in Mobile Web. 37-42
  

• Richard T. Snodgrass:
  Reminiscences on Influential Papers. 43-48
  

• Prabhu Ram, Lyman Do, Pamela Drew:
  Distributed Transactions in Practice. 49-55
  

• Mark Papiani, Jasmin L. Wason, Alistair N. Dunlop, Denis A. Nicole:
  A Distributed Scientific Data Archive Using the Web, XML and SQL/MED. 56-62
  

• Ruxandra Domenig, Klaus R. Dittrich:
  An Overview and Classification of Mediated Query Systems. 63-72
  

• Le Gruenwald, Leonard Brown, Ravi A. Dirckze, Sylvain Guinepain, Carlos Sánchez, Brian Summers, Sirirut Vanichayobon:
  Database Research at the University of Oklahoma. 73-78
  

Volume 28, Number 4, December 1999

• Michael J. Franklin:
  Editor's Notes. 2
  

• Opher Etzion:
  Report on NGITS'99: The 4th International Workshop on Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems. 3-6
  
• Stella Gatziu, Manfred A. Jeusfeld, Martin Staudt, Yannis Vassiliou:
  Design and Management of Data Warehouses: Report on the DMDW'99 Workshop. 7-10
  

• Eric N. Hanson, Lloyd Noronha:
  Timer-Driven Database Triggers and Alerters: Semantics and a Challenge. 11-16
  
• Tim Kempster, Colin Stirling, Peter Thanisch:
  Diluting ACID. 17-23
  
• Leonid Libkin:
  Some Remarks on Variable Independence, Closure, and Orthographic Dimension in Constraint Databases. 24-28
  

• Leonid Libkin:
  Database Principles Column - Introduction. 29
  
• Serge Abiteboul:
  On Views and XML. 30-38
  

• Kenneth A. Ross, Surajit Chaudhuri, Gösta Grahne, H. V. Jagadish, Jan Van den Bussche, Moshe Y. Vardi:
  Reminiscences on Influential Papers. 39-41
  

• Kaippallimalil J. Jacob, Dennis Shasha:
  FinTime - A Financial Time Series Benchmark. 42-48
  

• Ron Musick, Terence Critchlow:
  Practical Lessons in Supporting Large-Scale Computational Science. 49-57
  

• Andrew Eisenberg, Jim Melton:
  SQLJ-Part 1: SQL Routines Using the Java Programming Language. 58-63
  

• Panos Vassiliadis, Timos K. Sellis:
  A Survey of Logical Models for OLAP Databases. 64-69
  

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