ACM SIGMOD Conference 1983: San Jose, California

Invited Speakers

• C. J. Date:
  Database Usability (Abstract). 1
  
• Philip A. Bernstein:
  Database Theory: Where Has It Been? Where Is It Going? (Abstract). 2
  
• Jim Gray:
  Practical Problems in Data Management - A Position Paper. 3
  
• Erich J. Neuhold:
  Views on Data Management. 4-5
  

Distributed Systems I

• David D. Wright:
  On Merging Partitioned Databases. 6-14
  
• David Maier, Jeffrey D. Ullman:
  Fragments of Relations. 15-22
  
• Eugene Wong, Randy H. Katz:
  Distributing A Database for Parallelism. 23-29
  

Query Optimization

• Clement T. Yu, C. C. Chang:
  On the Design of a Query Processing Strategy in a Distributed Database Environment. 30-39
  
• Stavros Christodoulakis:
  Estimating Block Transfers and Join Sizes. 40-54
  
• Yahiko Kambayashi, Masatoshi Yoshikawa:
  Query Processing Utilizing Dependencies and Horizontal Decomposition. 55-67
  

Universal Relation Systems

• David Maier, David Rozenshtein, David Scott Warren:
  Windows on the World. 68-78
  
• Kent Laver, Alberto O. Mendelzon, Marc H. Graham:
  Functional Dependencies on Cyclic Database Schemes. 79-91
  
• Peter Honeyman, Edward Sciore:
  A New Characterization of Independence. 92-96
  

Implementation Issues

• Michael J. Carey:
  An Abstract Model of Database Concurrency Control Algorithms. 97-107
  
• Walter H. Kohler, Kenneth C. Wilner, John A. Stankovic:
  An Experimental Comparison of Locking Policies in a Testbed Database System. 108-119
  
• David B. Lomet:
  A High Performance, Universal, Key Associative Access Method. 120-133
  

Panel

• Michael Stonebraker:
  DBMS and AI: Is There any Common Point of View? 134
  

Application Systems

• Neil C. Rowe:
  Top-Down Statistical Estimation on a Database. 135-145
  
• Guy M. Lohman, Joseph C. Stoltzfus, Anita N. Benson, Michael D. Martin, Alfonso F. Cardenas:
  Remotely-Sensed Geophysical Databases: Experience and Implications for Generalized DBMS. 146-160
  
• Nan C. Shu, Harry K. T. Wong, Vincent Y. Lum:
  Forms Approach to Requirements Specification for Database Design. 161-172
  

Database Theory

• Alessandro D'Atri, Marina Moscarini, Nicolas Spyratos:
  Answering Queries in Relational Databases. 173-177
  
• Tomasz Imielinski, Witold Lipski Jr.:
  Incomplete Information and Dependencies in Relational Databases. 178-184
  
• Sharon McCure Kuck, Yehoshua Sagiv:
  Designing Globally Consistent Network Schemas. 185-195
  

Query Languages

• Matthias Jarke, Jürgen Koch:
  Range Nesting: A Fast Method to Evaluate Quantified Queries. 196-206
  
• Carlo Zaniolo:
  The Database Language GEM. 207-218
  
• Michele Missikoff, Michel Scholl:
  Relational Queries in a Domain Based DBMS. 219-227
  

Distributed Systems II

• Arvola Chan, Umeshwar Dayal, Stephen Fox, Nathan Goodman, Daniel R. Ries, Dale Skeen:
  Overview of an Ada Compatible Distributed Database Manager. 228-237
  
• Paul F. Wilms, Bruce G. Lindsay, Patricia G. Selinger:
  "I wish I were over there": Distributed Execution Protocols for Data Definition in R*. 238-242
  

Panel

• Gad Ariav, James Clifford, Matthias Jarke:
  Time and Databases. 243-245