21. VLDB 1995: Zurich, Switzerland

Invited Talks

• Henry F. Korth:
  The Double Life of the Transaction Abstraction: Fundamental Principle and Evolving System Concept. 2-6
  
• Rudolf Bayer:
  Document Management as a Database Problem. 7-10
  
• Stuart E. Madnick:
  From VLDB to VMLDB (Very MANY Large Data Bases): Dealing with Large-Scale Semantic Heterogenity. 11-16
  

Object Stores

• André Eickler, Carsten Andreas Gerlhof, Donald Kossmann:
  A Performance Evaluation of OID Mapping Techniques. 18-29
  
• Janet L. Wiener, Jeffrey F. Naughton:
  OODB Bulk Loading Revisited: The Partitioned-List Approach. 30-41
  
• Laurent Amsaleg, Michael J. Franklin, Olivier Gruber:
  Efficient Incremental Garbage Collection for Client-Server Object Database Systems. 42-53
  

Distributed Information Retrieval

• David Konopnicki, Oded Shmueli:
  W3QS: A Query System for the World-Wide Web. 54-65
  
• Tak W. Yan, Hector Garcia-Molina:
  Duplicate Removal in Information System Dissemination. 66-77
  
• Luis Gravano, Hector Garcia-Molina:
  Generalizing GlOSS to Vector-Space Databases and Broker Hierarchies. 78-89
  

Disk Management

• Kazuhiko Mogi, Masaru Kitsuregawa:
  Hot Block Clustering for Disk Arrays with Dynamic Striping. 90-99
  
• Kun-Lung Wu, Philip S. Yu, Jen-Yao Chung, James Z. Teng:
  A Performance Study of Workfile Disk Management for Concurrent Mergesorts in a Multiprocessor Database System. 100-109
  
• Ling Tony Chen, Doron Rotem, Sridhar Seshadri:
  Declustering Databases on Heterogeneous Disk Systems. 110-121
  

Concurrency Control

• Azer Bestavros, Spyridon Braoudakis:
  Value-cognizant Speculative Concurrency Control. 122-133
  
• Marcel Kornacker, Douglas Banks:
  High-Concurrency Locking in R-Trees. 134-145
  
• Brajesh Goyal, Jayant R. Haritsa, S. Seshadri, V. Srinivasan:
  Index Concurrency Control in Firm Real-Time Database Systems. 146-157
  

Object Technology

• Peter Buneman, Susan B. Davidson, Kyle Hart, G. Christian Overton, Limsoon Wong:
  A Data Transformation System for Biological Data Sources. 158-169
  
• Fabrizio Ferrandina, Thorsten Meyer, Roberto Zicari, Guy Ferran, Joëlle Madec:
  Schema and Database Evolution in the O2 Object Database System. 170-181
  
• Kazimierz Subieta, Yahiko Kambayashi, Jacek Leszczylowski:
  Procedures in Object-Oriented Query Languages. 182-193
  

Transaction Models

• Marek Rusinkiewicz, Wolfgang Klas, Thomas Tesch, Jürgen Wäsch, Peter Muth:
  Towards a Cooperative Transaction Model - The Cooperative Activity Model. 194-205
  
• Roger S. Barga, Calton Pu:
  A Practical and Modular Implementation of Extended Transaction Models. 206-217
  
• Paul Ammann, Sushil Jajodia, Indrakshi Ray:
  Using Formal Methods to Reason about Semantics-Based Decompositions of Transactions. 218-227
  

Query Optimization

• Michael Steinbrunn, Klaus Peithner, Guido Moerkotte, Alfons Kemper:
  Bypassing Joins in Disjunctive Queries. 228-238
  
• Waqar Hasan, Rajeev Motwani:
  Coloring Away Communication in Parallel Query Optimization. 239-250
  
• Hongjun Lu, Kian-Lee Tan, Son Dao:
  The Fittest Survives: An Adaptive Approach to Query Optimization. 251-262
  

Multimedia

• Markus Tresch, Neal Palmer, Allen Luniewski:
  Type Classification of Semi-Structured Documents. 263-274
  
• Frank Moser, Achim Kraiss, Wolfgang Klas:
  L/MRP: A Buffer Management Strategy for Interactive Continuous Data Flows in a Multimedia DBMS. 275-286
  
• Surajit Chaudhuri, Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, Cyrus Shahabi:
  Retrieval of Composite Multimedia Objects. 287-298
  

Cost Models

• Alberto Belussi, Christos Faloutsos:
  Estimating the Selectivity of Spatial Queries Using the `Correlation' Fractal Dimension. 299-310
  
• Peter J. Haas, Jeffrey F. Naughton, S. Seshadri, Lynne Stokes:
  Sampling-Based Estimation of the Number of Distinct Values of an Attribute. 311-322
  
• Georges Gardarin, Jean-Robert Gruser, Zhao-Hui Tang:
  A Cost Model for Clustered Object-Oriented Databases. 323-334
  

Query Processing

• Staffan Flodin, Tore Risch:
  Processing Object-Oriented Queries with Invertible Late Bound Functions. 335-344
  
• Weipeng P. Yan, Per-Åke Larson:
  Eager Aggregation and Lazy Aggregation. 345-357
  
• Ashish Gupta, Venky Harinarayan, Dallan Quass:
  Aggregate-Query Processing in Data Warehousing Environments. 358-369
  

Parallel Databases

• Nick Bassiliades, Ioannis P. Vlahavas:
  A Non-Uniform Data Fragmentation Strategy for Parallel Main-Menory Database Systems. 370-381
  
• Manish Mehta, David J. DeWitt:
  Managing Intra-operator Parallelism in Parallel Database Systems. 382-394
  
• Erhard Rahm, Robert Marek:
  Dynamic Multi-Resource Load Balancing in Parallel Database Systems. 395-406
  

Mining Association Rules

• Ramakrishnan Srikant, Rakesh Agrawal:
  Mining Generalized Association Rules. 407-419
  
• Jiawei Han, Yongjian Fu:
  Discovery of Multiple-Level Association Rules from Large Databases. 420-431
  
• Ashok Savasere, Edward Omiecinski, Shamkant B. Navathe:
  An Efficient Algorithm for Mining Association Rules in Large Databases. 432-444
  

Recovery and Availability

• Rainer Gallersdörfer, Matthias Nicola:
  Improving Performance in Replicated Databases through Relaxed Coherency. 445-456
  
• David B. Lomet, Mark R. Tuttle:
  Redo Recovery after System Crashes. 457-468
  
• Svein-Olaf Hvasshovd, Øystein Torbjørnsen, Svein Erik Bratsberg, Per Holager:
  The ClustRa Telecom Database: High Availability, High Throughput, and Real-Time Response. 469-477
  

Data Mining

• Hongjun Lu, Rudy Setiono, Huan Liu:
  NeuroRule: A Connectionist Approach to Data Mining. 478-489
  
• Rakesh Agrawal, King-Ip Lin, Harpreet S. Sawhney, Kyuseok Shim:
  Fast Similarity Search in the Presence of Noise, Scaling, and Translation in Time-Series Databases. 490-501
  
• Rakesh Agrawal, Giuseppe Psaila, Edward L. Wimmers, Mohamed Zaït:
  Querying Shapes of Histories. 502-514
  

Schema Management

• Steven Milliner, Athman Bouguettaya, Mike P. Papazoglou:
  A Scalable Architecture for Autonomous Heterogeneous Database Interactions. 515-526
  
• Eben M. Haber, Yannis E. Ioannidis, Miron Livny:
  OPOSSUM: Desk-Top Schema Management through Customizable Visualization. 527-538
  
• Christian Kalus, Peter Dadam:
  Flexible Relations - Operational Support of Variant Relational Structures. 539-550
  

Access Methods

• Georgios Evangelidis, David B. Lomet, Betty Salzberg:
  The hBP-tree: A Modified hB-tree Supporting Concurrency, Recovery and Node Consolidation. 551-561
  
• Joseph M. Hellerstein, Jeffrey F. Naughton, Avi Pfeffer:
  Generalized Search Trees for Database Systems. 562-573
  
• Sergey Brin:
  Near Neighbor Search in Large Metric Spaces. 574-584
  

Mass Storage

• Sunita Sarawagi:
  Query Processing in Tertiary Memory Databases. 585-596
  
• Luis-Felipe Cabrera, Robert M. Rees, Wayne Hineman:
  Applying Database Technology in the ADSM Mass Storage System. 597-605
  

Spatial Data

• Erik G. Hoel, Hanan Samet:
  Benchmarking Spatial Join Operations with Spatial Output. 606-618
  
• A. Prasad Sistla, Clement T. Yu, Chengwen Liu, King-Lup Liu:
  Similarity based Retrieval of Pictures Using Indices on Spatial Relationships. 619-629
  

Panels

• Raghu Ramakrishnan, Hector Garcia-Molina, Gerhard Rossbach, Abraham Silberschatz, Gio Wiederhold, Jaco Zijlstra:
  Scientific Journals: Extinction or Explosion? (Panel). 631
  
• Andreas Reuter, Stefano Ceri, Jim Gray, Betty Salzberg, Gerhard Weikum:
  Databases and Workflow Management: What is it All About? (Panel). 632
  
• Leonard J. Seligman, Nicholas J. Belkin, Erich J. Neuhold, Michael Stonebraker, Gio Wiederhold:
  Metrics for Accessing Heterogeneous Data: Is There Any Hope? (Panel). 633
  

Application Session 1

• Andreas Meier:
  Providing Database Migration Tools - A Practicioner's Approach. 635-641
  
• Eric Simon, Angelika Kotz Dittrich:
  Promises and Realities of Active Database Systems. 642-653
  

Application Session 2

• Tor Didriksen, César A. Galindo-Legaria, Eirik Dahle:
  Database De-Centralization - A Practical Approach. 654-665
  
• Kazutoshi Sumiya, Kouichi Yasutake, Hirohiko Tanaka, Norio Sanada, Yoshihiko Imai:
  A Product Specification Database for Visual Prototyping. 666-676
  

Vendor Session 1

• David Vaskevitch:
  Very Large Databases: How Large, How Different? 677-685
  

Vendor Session 2

• Yun Wang:
  DB2 Query Parallelism: Staging and Implementation. 686-691
  
• Gilles Fecteau:
  Managing a DB2 Parallel Edition Database. 692-693
  

Vendor Session 3

• Bruce G. Lindsay:
  DB2 Common Server: Technology, Progress, & Directions. 694-695
  
• John Catozzi, Sorana Rabinovici:
  OS Support for VLDBs: Unix Enhancements for the Teradata Data Base. 696-701
  

Vendor Session 4

• Jack A. Orenstein, D. N. Kamber:
  Accessing a Relational Database through an Object-Oriented Database Interface. 702-705
  

Vendor Session 5

• Hannes Spintzik:
  Informix-Online XPS: A Dynamically Scalable RDBMS for Open Parallel Platforms. 706
  
• Gary Hallmark:
  The Oracle Warehouse. 707-709
  

Vendor Session 6

• Harry Leslie, Rohit Jain, Dave Birdsall, Hedieh Yaghmai:
  Efficient Search of Multi-Dimensional B-Trees. 710-719
  
• Paul Brown, Michael Stonebraker:
  BigSur: A System For the Management of Earth Science Data. 720-728