ACM SIGMOD Conference 1978: Austin, Texas

Panel

• Howard L. Morgan:
  Natural Language Interfaces. 1
  

Concurrency and Recovery

• Daniel A. Menascé, Gerald J. Popek, Richard R. Muntz:
  A Locking Protocol for Resource Coordination in Distributed Databases (Abstract). 2
  
• Daniel J. Rosenkrantz:
  Dynamic Database Dumping. 3-8
  
• Y. Edmund Lien, Peter J. Weinberger:
  Consistency, Concurrency and Crash Recovery. 9-14
  

Panel

• Jerry Winkler:
  Managing the Data Resource. 15-16
  

DataBase Languages and Models

• John Mylopoulos, Philip A. Bernstein, Harry K. T. Wong:
  A Language Facility for Designing Interactive Database-Intensive Applications (Abstract). 17
  
• R. M. Lee, Rob Gerritsen:
  Extended Semantics for Generalization Hierarchies. 18-25
  
• Michael Hammer, Dennis McLeod:
  The Semantic Data Model: A Modelling Mechanism for Data Base Applications. 26-36
  

Panel

• Brett Berlin:
  DBMS Selection and Evaluation: Perspectives and Practical Issues. 37-38
  

Formal Topics

• Alfred V. Aho, Yehoshua Sagiv, Jeffrey D. Ullman:
  Efficient Optimization of a Class of Relational Expressions (Abstract). 39
  
• Jean-Marie Nicolas:
  First Order Logic Formalization for Functional, Multivalued and Mutual Dependencies. 40-46
  

File and Access Structures

• Sumiyasu Yamamoto, Shinsei Tazawa, Kazuhiko Ushio, Hideto Ikeda:
  Design of a Generalized Balanced Multiple-Valued File Organization Scheme of Order Two. 47-51
  
• Salvatore T. March, Dennis G. Severance:
  A Mathematical Modeling Approach to the Automatic Selection of Database Designs. 52-65
  
• S. Bing Yao, D. DeJong:
  Evaluation of Database Access Paths. 66-77
  
• Thomas J. Cook:
  A Dynamic Address Computation Mechanism for Use in Database Management. 78-87
  

Panel

• T. William Olle:
  The Conceptual Schema Controversy. 88
  

Practical Issues

• J. G. Malkin, B. F. Anderson:
  A Case Management System: Three Views of an Application. 89-100
  
• J. P. DeBlasis, T. H. Johnson:
  Review of Data Base Administrators Functions from a Survey. 101-109
  
• J. D. Clark, Jeffrey A. Hoffer:
  A Procedure for the Determination of Attribute Access Probabilities. 110-117
  

Panel

• John L. Berg:
  The Practitioner's Viewpoint. 118
  

Database and Program Conversion

• J. Nations, Stanley Y. W. Su:
  Some DML Instruction Sequences for Application Program Analysis and Conversion. 120-131
  
• Donald E. Swartwout, James P. Fry:
  Towards the Support of Integrated Views of Multiple Databases: An Aggregate Schema Facility. 132-143
  
• Shamkant B. Navathe, Mario Schkolnick:
  View Representation in Logical Database Design. 144-156
  

Panel

• Stanley Y. W. Su:
  Database Machines. 157-158
  

Query Processing

• Michael Hammer, Sunil K. Sarin:
  Efficient Monitoring of Database Assertions (Abstract). 159
  
• Nancy D. Griffeth:
  Nonprocedural Query Processing for Databases with Access Paths. 160-168
  
• Robert S. Epstein, Michael Stonebraker, Eugene Wong:
  Distributed Query Processing in a Relational Data Base System. 169-180