Information Systems , Volume 11, 1986

Volume 11, Number 1

Israel Gold, Haran Boral: The power of the private workspace model. 1-7
Sol J. Greenspan, Alexander Borgida, John Mylopoulos: A requirements modeling language and its logic. 9-23
Stefano Ceri, Georg Gottlob, Giuseppe Pelagatti: Taxonomy and formal properties of distributed joins. 25-40
Isamu Kobayashi: Losslessness and semantic correctness of database schema transformation: another look of schema equivalence. 41-59
José Luiz Fiadeiro, Amílcar Sernadas: The INFOLOG linear tense propositional logic of events and transactions. 61-85
G. Barbara Demo, Sukhamay Kundu: Modeling the CODASYL DML context dependency for database program conversion. 87-100

Isamu Kobayashi: Classification and transformations of binary relationship relation schemata. 109-122
Levent V. Orman: Functional data model design. 123-135
Hans-Jörg Schek, Marc H. Scholl: The relational model with relation-valued attributes. 137-147
Sonia Berman: A semantic data model as the basis for an automated database design tool. 149-165
Sheau-Dong Lang, James R. Driscoll, Jiann H. Jou: Batch Insertion for Tree Structured File Organizations - Improving Differential Database Reprensentation. 167-175
Mostafa A. Bassiouni, B. Ok: Double encoding - A technique for reducing storage requirement of text. 177-184
Juhani Iivari: Dimensions of information systems design: A framework for a long-range research program. 185-197

Sonia Bergamaschi, Maria Rita Scalas: Choice of the optimal number of blocks for data access by an index. 199-209
Francesco M. Malvestuto: Statistical treatment of the information content of a database. 211-223
Levent V. Orman: Redundancy in functional databases. 225-234
Betty Salzberg: Grid File Concurrency. 235-244
Michael Z. Hanani, Peretz Shoval: A combined methodology for information systems analysis and design based on ISAC and NIAM. 245-253
Arun Sen, Chee Ching: Schema translation: A three-level Semantic abstraction approach. 255-270

Erhard Rahm: Primary copy synchronization for DB-Sharing. 275-286
Virgil D. Gligor, Radu Popescu-Zeletin: Transaction management in distributed heterogeneous database management systems. 287-297
Erkki Lehtinen, Kalle Lyytinen: Action based model of information system. 299-317
M. Y. Chan, F. C. P. Chan: Database concurrency control using read/write set information. 319-322
Peter Pistor, Roland Traunmüller: A database language for sets, lists and tables. 323-336
K. D. Sharma, Rekha Jain: Choosing an optimal sequence of discriminators. 337-342
Abdullah Uz Tansel: Adding time dimension to relational model and extending relational algebra. 343-355