IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, Volume 16

Volume 16, Number 1, March 1993

• Rakesh Agrawal, David B. Lomet:
  Important Membership Message. 1
  
• David B. Lomet:
  The Evolution of the Bulletin. 2
  
• Yannis E. Ioannidis:
  Letter from the Special Issue Editor. 3
  
• Arie Shoshani:
  A Layered Approach to Scientific Data Management at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. 4-8
  
• Judith Bayard Cushing, David M. Hansen, David Maier, Calton Pu:
  Connecting Programs and Data Using Object Databases. 9-13
  
• John L. Pfaltz, James C. French:
  Scientific Database Management with ADAMS. 14-18
  
• Yannis E. Ioannidis, Miron Livny, Eben M. Haber, Renée J. Miller, Odysseas G. Tsatalos, Janet L. Wiener:
  Desktop Experiment Management. 19-23
  
• Michael Stonebraker:
  The SEQUOIA 2000 project. 24-28
  
• Nabil I. Hachem, Michael A. Gennert, Matthew O. Ward:
  An Overview of the Gaea Project. 29-32
  
• Terence R. Smith, Jianwen Su, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi:
  Database and Modeling Systems for the Earth Sciences. 33-37
  
• Manish Arya, William F. Cody, Christos Faloutsos, Joel E. Richardson, Arthur Toya:
  QBISM: A Prototype 3-D Medical Image Database System. 38-42
  
• Alfonso F. Cardenas, Ricky K. Taira, Wesley W. Chu, Claudine M. Breant:
  Integration and Interoperability of a Multimedia Medical Distributed Datbase System. 43-47
  
• Richard H. Wolniewicz, Goetz Graefe:
  Algebraic Optimization of Computations over Scientific Databases. 48-51
  

Volume 16, Number 2, June 1993

• Rakesh Agrawal, David B. Lomet:
  Important Membership Message - Repeated from March Issue. 1
  
• David B. Lomet:
  Letter from the Editor-in-Chief. 2
  
• Heichun Hsu:
  Letter from the Special Issue Editor. 3
  
• Gerhard Weikum, Andrew Deacon, Werner Schaad, Hans-Jörg Schek:
  Open Nested Transactions in Federated Database Systems. 4-7
  
• Rajeev Rastogi, Sharad Mehrotra, Henry F. Korth, Abraham Silberschatz:
  Transcending the Serializability Requirement. 8-11
  
• Roger S. Barga, Calton Pu:
  Accessing Imprecise Data: An Approach Based on Intervals. 12-15
  
• Panos K. Chrysanthis, Krithi Ramamritham:
  Delegation in ACTA to Control Sharing in Extended Transactions. 16-19
  
• Johannes Klein, Francis Upton IV:
  Constraint Based Transaction Management. 20-23
  
• Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Mark F. Hornick, Frank Manola, Michael L. Brodie, Sandra Heiler, Farshad Nayeri, Benjamin Hurwitz:
  An Extended Transaction Environment for Workflows in Distributed Object Computing. 24-27
  
• Omran A. Bukhres, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, eva Kühn:
  Implementation of the Flex Transaction Model. 28-32
  
• Christine Tomlinson, Paul C. Attie, Philip Cannata, Greg Meredith, Amit P. Sheth, Munindar P. Singh, Darrell Woelk:
  Workflow Support in Carnot. 33-36
  
• Amit P. Sheth, Marek Rusinkiewicz:
  On Transactional Workflows. 37-40
  
• Umeshwar Dayal, Ming-Chien Shan:
  Issues in Operation Flow Management for Long-Running Acivities. 41-44
  
• Meichun Hsu, Ron Obermarck, Roelof Vuurboom:
  Workflow Model and Execution. 45-48
  
• Raul Medina-Mora, Harry K. T. Wong, Pablo Flores:
  ActionWorkflow as the Enterprise Integration Technology. 49-52
  
• Dennis R. McCarthy, Sunil K. Sarin:
  Workflow and Transactions in InConcert. 53-56
  

Volume 16, Number 3, September 1993

• David B. Lomet:
  Letter from the Editor-in-Chief. 1-2
  
• Kyu-Young Whang:
  Letter from the Special Issue Editor. 3
  
• Oliver Günther, Wolf-Fritz Riekert:
  The Design of GODOT: An Object-Oriented Geographic Information System. 4-9
  
• Hans-Peter Kriegel, Thomas Brinkhoff, Ralf Schneider:
  Efficient Spatial Query Processing in Geographic Database Systems. 10-15
  
• Hongjun Lu, Beng Chin Ooi:
  Spatial Indexing: Past and Future. 16-21
  
• Brian C. Schmult, H. V. Jagadish, S. Kicha Ganapathy:
  Interactive Spatial Directories. 22-27
  
• Christos Faloutsos, Ibrahim Kamel:
  High Performance R-trees. 28-33
  
• Georgios Evangelidis, Betty Salzberg:
  Using the Holy Brick Tree for Spatial Data in General Purpose DBMSs. 34-39
  
• Max J. Egenhofer:
  Definitions of Line-Line Relations for Geographic Databases. 40-45
  
• Paolo Giulio Franciosa, Maurizio Talamo:
  ESPRIT Project EP6881 AMUSING. 46-50
  

Volume 16, Number 4, December 1993

• Rakesh Agrawal:
  Letter from the TC Chair. 1
  
• David B. Lomet:
  Letter from the Editor-in-Chief. 2
  
• Goetz Graefe:
  Letter from the Special Issue Editor. 3
  
• Peter Gassner, Guy M. Lohman, K. Bernhard Schiefer, Yun Wang:
  Query Optimization in the IBM DB2 Family. 4-18
  
• Richard L. Cole, Mark J. Anderson, Robert J. Bestgen:
  Query Processing in the IBM Application System/400. 19-28
  
• Albert Chen, Yung-Feng Kao, Mike Pong, Diana Shak, Sunil Sharma, Jay Vaishnav, Hansjörg Zeller:
  Query Processing in NonStop SQL. 29-41
  
• Gennady Antoshenkov:
  Query Processing in DEC Rdb: Major Issues and Future Challenges. 42-52