SIGMOD Record, Volume 36

Volume 36, Number 1, March 2007

• Goetz Graefe:
  Efficient columnar storage in B-trees. 3-6
  
• Kenneth A. Ross, David Vespe, David Hessing, Pranay Jain:
  Finding shapes in a set of points. 7-12
  
• Xinqiang Zuo, Xiaoming Jin:
  General Hierarchical Model (GHM) to measure similarity of time series. 13-18
  
• Joseph E. Hoag, Craig W. Thompson:
  A parallel general-purpose synthetic data generator. 19-24
  
• Daniele Braga, Alessandro Campi, Stefano Ceri, Paola Spoletini:
  XQuery layers. 25-30
  

• Richard T. Snodgrass:
  Frequently-asked questions about double-blind reviewing. 60-62
  

• Luc Segoufin:
  Static analysis of XML processing with data values. 31-38
  

• Marianne Winslett:
  Stefano Ceri speaks out on many-book researchers and one-startup researchers, web modeling, the vanishing US-Europe research gap, the semantic web services train, and more. 39-46
  

• Anil Bahuman, Chaitra Bahuman, Malati Baru, Subhasri Duttagupta, Krithi Ramamritham:
  Developmental informatics at IIT Bombay. 47-53
  

• Dongwon Lee, Chen Li:
  Report on the First International VLDB Workshop on Clean Databases (CleanDB 2006). 54-56
  
• James Ze Wang, Nozha Boujemaa, Yixin Chen:
  High diversity transforms multimedia information retrieval into a cross-cutting field: report on the 8th Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval. 57-59
  

Volume 36, Number 2, June 2007

• Sandeep Tata, Jignesh M. Patel:
  Estimating the selectivity of tf-idf based cosine similarity predicates. 7-12
  
• E. Patrick Shironoshita, Michael T. Ryan, Mansur R. Kabuka:
  Cardinality estimation for the optimization of queries on ontologies. 13-18
  

• Balder ten Cate, Maarten Marx:
  Navigational XPath: calculus and algebra. 19-26
  

• Marianne Winslett:
  Georg Gottlob speaks out. 27-33
  

• Michael J. Carey, Torsten Grust:
  Report on the Third International Workshop on XQuery Implementation, Experience and Perspectives (XIME-P 2006). 35-37
  
• Li Xiong, Yuni Xia:
  Report on ACM Workshop on Health Information and Knowledge Management (HIKM 2006). 39-42
  
• Eric Pardede:
  Event report on iiWAS 2006 and MoMM 2006, Yogyakarta, December 2006. 43-45
  

Volume 36, Number 3, September 2007

• Walker M. White, Christoph Koch, Nitin Gupta, Johannes Gehrke, Alan J. Demers:
  Database research opportunities in computer games. 7-13
  

• Wim Martens, Frank Neven, Thomas Schwentick:
  Simple off the shelf abstractions for XML schema. 15-22
  

• Anna Stavrianou, Periklis Andritsos, Nicolas Nicoloyannis:
  Overview and semantic issues of text mining. 23-34
  

• Marianne Winslett:
  Kyu-Young Whang speaks out: on academia and startups in Korea, probabilistic counting, main-memory query optimization, how to avoid being a hostage of pressure publishing, and more. 35-40
  
• Marianne Winslett:
  Boon Thau Loo speaks out: on his SIGMOD dissertation award, better networking through datalog, life as an assistant professor, and more. 41-45
  

• Community systems research at Yahoo! 47-54
  

• Vassilis Christophides, Peter Buneman:
  Report on the First International Workshop on Database Preservation (PresDB'07). 55-58
  

Volume 36, Number 4, December 2007

• Nicolas Bruno:
  A critical look at the TAB benchmark for physical design tools. 7-12
  
• Claude Rubinson:
  Nulls, three-valued logic, and ambiguity in SQL: critiquing date's critique. 13-17
  

• Cristiana Bolchini, Carlo Curino, Elisa Quintarelli, Fabio A. Schreiber, Letizia Tanca:
  A data-oriented survey of context models. 19-26
  

• Robert Ennals, Eric A. Brewer, Minos N. Garofalakis, Michael Shadle, Prashant Gandhi:
  Intel Mash Maker: join the web. 27-33
  

• Marianne Winslett, Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates:
  Ricardo Baeza-Yates speaks out: on CS research in Latin America, his multi-continent commute for Yahoo!, how to get real data in academia, and web mining. 35-41
  

• Stefano Ceri, Cristiana Bolchini, Daniele Braga, Marco Brambilla, Alessandro Campi, Sara Comai, Piero Fraternali, Pier Luca Lanzi, Marco Masseroli, Maristella Matera, Mauro Negri, Giuseppe Pelagatti, Giuseppe Pozzi, Elisa Quintarelli, Fabio A. Schreiber, Letizia Tanca:
  Data and web management research at Politecnico di Milano. 43-48
  

• Ihab F. Ilyas, Gautam Das:
  Report on the First International Workshop on Ranking in Databases (DBRank'07). 49-51
  
• Magdalena Balazinska, Amol Deshpande, Alexandros Labrinidis, Qiong Luo, Samuel Madden, Jun Yang:
  Report on the Fourth International Workshop on Data Management for Sensor Networks (DMSN 2007). 53-55
  
• Ander de Keijzer, Maurice van Keulen, Alex Dekhtyar:
  Report on the First VLDB Workshop on Management of Uncertain Data (MUD). 57-58
  
• Sandeep Tata, Jignesh M. Patel:
  Estimating the selectivity of tf-idf based cosine similarity predicates. 75-80