IEEE Database Engineering Bulletin, Volume 8

Volume 8, Number 1, March 1985

• Haran Boral:
  Letter from the Editor. 1
  
• David J. DeWitt:
  Benchmarking Database Systems: Past Effords and Future Diretions. 2-9
  
• Michael Stonebraker:
  Tips on Benchmarking Data Base Systems. 10-18
  
• Paula B. Hawthorn:
  Variations on a Benchmark. 19-28
  
• Steven A. Demurjian, David K. Hsiao:
  Benchmarking Database Systems in Multiple Systems in Multiple Backend Configurations. 29-39
  
• Timothy C. K. Chou, Jim Gray:
  Transaction Acceleration. 40-52
  
• Margaret H. Eich:
  Transaction Oriented Performance Analysis of Database Machines. 53-60
  

Volume 8, Number 2, June 1985

• C. Mohan:
  Letter from the Editor. 1
  
• Dieter Gawlick, David Kinkade:
  Varieties of Concurrency Control in IMS/VS Fast Path. 3-10
  
• Pat Helland:
  Transaction Monitoring Facility. 11-18
  
• Alfred Z. Spector:
  The TABS Projects. 19-25
  
• William E. Weihl:
  Atomic Data Types. 26-33
  
• Arvola Chan, Sunil K. Sarin:
  Improving Availability and Performance of Distributed Database Systems. 34-41
  
• C. Mohan:
  Concurrency and Recovery in Data Base Systems. 42-49
  
• Theo Härder, Peter Peinl, Andreas Reuter:
  Performance Analysis of Synchronization and Recovery Schemes. 50-57
  
• Rakesh Agrawal, Michael J. Carey:
  The Performance of Concurrency Control and Recovery Algorithms for Transaction-Oriented Database Systems. 58-67
  
• Rafael Alonso, Daniel Barbará, Ricardo Cordon, Hector Garcia-Molina, Jack Kent, Frank M. Pittelli:
  Distributed Computing Research at Princeton. 68-75
  
• Jo-Mei Chang:
  LAMBDA: A Distributed Database System for Local Area Networks. 76-83
  
• Dennis Shasha:
  What Good are Concurrent Search Structure Algorithms for databases Anyway? 84-90
  
• Nancy D. Griffeth:
  Reducing the Cost of Recovery from Transaction Failure. 91-98
  
• Dale Skeen:
  Achieving High Availability in Partitioned Database Systems. 99-106
  

Volume 8, Number 3, September 1985

• Yannis Vassiliou:
  Letter from the Editor. 1
  
• Zenon W. Pylyshyn, Richard I. Kittredge:
  Databases and Natural Language Processing. 2-9
  
• Paul A. Martin, Douglas E. Appelt, Barbara J. Grosz, Fernando C. N. Pereira:
  TEAM: An Experimental Transportable Natural-Language Interface. 10-22
  
• Hubert Lehmann, Nikolaus Ott, Magdalena Zoeppritz:
  A Multilingual Interface to Databases. 23-33
  
• Matthias Jarke, Jürgen Krause, Yannis Vassiliou, Edward A. Stohr, Jon A. Turner, Norman H. White:
  Evaluation and Assessment of a Domain-Independent Natural Language Query System. 34-44
  
• Naomi Sager, Emile C. Chi, Carol Friedman, Margaret S. Lyman:
  Modeling Natural Language Data for Automatic Creation of a Database from Free-Text Input. 45-55
  
• Zenon W. Pylyshyn:
  Alternatives to the Use of Natural Language in Interfacing Databases. 56-63
  
• Craig W. Thompson:
  Menu-Based Natural Language Interfaces to Databases. 64-70
  

Volume 8, Number 4, December 1985

• Frederick H. Lochovsky:
  Letter from the Editor. 1
  
• Dennis Tsichritzis:
  Object Species. 2-7
  
• W. Bruce Croft:
  Task Management for an Intelligent Interface. 8-13
  
• Carson C. Woo, Frederick H. Lochovsky:
  An Object-Based Approach to Modelling Office Work. 14-22
  
• Stanley B. Zdonik:
  Object Management Systems for Design Environments. 23-30
  
• Matts Ahlsen, Anders Björnerstedt, Christer Hulten:
  OPAL: An Object-Based System for Application Development. 31-40
  
• Stephen P. Weiser:
  An Object-Oriented Protocol for Managing Data. 41-48
  
• Oscar Nierstrasz:
  Hybrid: A Unified Object-Oriented System. 49-57
  
• David Maier, Allen Otis, Alan Purdy:
  Object-Oriented Database Development at Servio Logic. 58-65
  
• Nigel Derrett, William Kent, Peter Lyngbæk:
  Some Aspects of Operations in an Object-Oriented Database. 66-74
  
• Gul Agha:
  A Message-Passing Paradigm for Object Management. 75-82
  
• Dennis McLeod, Surjatini Widjojo:
  Object Management and Sharing in Autonomous, Distributed Data/Knowledge Bases. 83-89