Thematic Special Issues

• Large-scale Analytics
  Wolfgang Lehner, Michael J. Franklin

• Data management for mobile services
  Ralf Hartmut Güting, Nikos Mamoulis

• Databases and Social Networks
  Klemens Böhm, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan

• Uncertain and Probabilistic Databases
  Peter J. Haas, Dan Suciu

• Metadata Management
  Tiziana Catarci, Renée J. Miller

• Database and Information Retrieval Integration
  W. Bruce Croft, Hans-Jörg Schek

• Privacy Preserving Data Management
  Elena Ferrari, Bhavani M. Thuraisingham

• Data Management, Analysis, and Mining for the Life Sciences
  Terry Gaasterland, H. V. Jagadish, Louiqa Raschid

• Data Stream Processing
  Johannes Gehrke, Joseph M. Hellerstein

• Multimedia Databases
  M. Tamer Özsu, Stavros Christodoulakis

• Persistent Object Systems
  Malcolm Atkinson, Ronald Morrison

• Prototypes of Deductive Database Systems
  Kotagiri Ramamohanarao
• Parallelism in Database Systems
  Michael J. Carey, Patrick Valduriez

Best of VLDB

• Best Papers of VLDB 2008
  Peter Buneman, Volker Mark, Beng Chin Ooi, Kenneth Ross

• Best Papers of VLDB 2007
  Minos Garofalakis, Johannes Gehrke, Divesh Srivastava

• Best Papers of VLDB 2005
  Laura M. Haas, Christian S. Jensen, Martin L. Kersten

• Best Papers of VLDB 2004
  M. Tamer Özsu, Donald Kossmann, Renée J. Miller