Distributed and Parallel Databases, Volume 17

Volume 17, Number 1, January 2005

• Boualem Benatallah, Marlon Dumas, Quan Z. Sheng:
  Facilitating the Rapid Development and Scalable Orchestration of Composite Web Services. 5-37
  
• Vinay Kanitkar, Alex Delis:
  Efficient Processing of Client Transactions in Real-Time. 39-74
  
• Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu, Divyakant Agrawal, Ömer Egecioglu, Amr El Abbadi:
  Optimal Data-Space Partitioning of Spatial Data for Parallel I/O. 75-101
  

Volume 17, Number 2, March 2005

• Mohamed H. Ali, Amani A. Saad, Mohamed A. Ismail:
  The PN-Tree: A Parallel and Distributed Multidimensional Index. 111-133
  
• Nick Bassiliades, Dimosthenis Anagnostopoulos, Ioannis P. Vlahavas:
  Web Service Composition Using a Deductive XML Rule Language. 135-178
  
• Brahim Medjahed, Athman Bouguettaya:
  A Dynamic Foundational Architecture for Semantic Web Services. 179-206
  

Volume 17, Number 3, May 2005

• Khaled M. Elbassioni, Amr Elmasry, Ibrahim Kamel:
  An Indexing Method for Answering Queries on Moving Objects. 215-249
  
• Roy Gelbard, Israel Spiegler:
  Living with Database Conflicts: A Temporal Branching Technique. 251-265
  
• Mara Nikolaidou, Dimosthenis Anagnostopoulos:
  A Systematic Approach for Configuring Web-Based Information Systems. 267-290