SIGMOD Record, Volume 13

Volume 13, Number 1, September 1982

• Thomas J. Cook:
  Editor's Notes. 1
  
• Michael Stonebraker:
  Chairman's Column. 2-3&4
  
• Survey of SIGMOD Membership. 5
  
• Patricia G. Selinger:
  Notes from the Vice Chairperson. 6-7
  
• Call for Papers: PODS 1983, IR 1983, NNP 1983. 10-12
  
• T. H. Merrett:
  Comments on "Note on the Expected Size of a Join". 13
  
• Robert M. Curtice:
  Letter. 14-15
  
• Bernd Walter:
  Transaction-oriented Recovery Concepts for Distributed Data Base Systems (Abstract). 16-17
  
• C. J. Date:
  A Formal Definition of the relational Model. 18-29
  
• Alain Pirotte:
  A Precise Definition of Basic Relational Notions and of the Relational Algebra. 30-45
  
• Paul De Bra, Jan Paredaens:
  Horizontal Decompositions and their Impact on Query Solving. 46-50
  
• Yves Vander Auwera, Luc Bernard:
  New Proposal for a Common Command Language in Information Systems. 51-78
  
• Jon D. Clark, Frederick G. Davis:
  Notes on the State of Data Base Audit. 79-91
  
• Neil C. Rowe:
  On Some Arguable Claims in B. Shneiderman's Evaluation of Natural Language Interaction with Database Systems. 92-97
  
• Ben Shneiderman:
  Response to N. C. Rowe's Rewiew. 98
  

Volume 13, Number 2, January 1983

• Michael Stonebraker:
  Chairman's Column. 1-3
  
• Thomas J. Cook:
  Editor's Notes. 3
  
• Patricia G. Selinger:
  Notes from the Vice Chairperson. 4-5
  
• Call for Papers: Database Week 1983, SSDBM 1983, Parallel Processing 1983, SIGPC/SIGSMALL 1983, ASIS 1982, NECC 1983, ICOD-2, PODS 1983. 6-18
  
• Rakesh Agrawal, Michael J. Carey, David J. DeWitt:
  Deadlock Detection is Cheap. 19-34
  
• Jürgen Klonk:
  Comments on Optimality of B-Trees. 35-38
  
• T. H. Merrett:
  Why Sort-Merge Gives the Best Implementation of the Natural Join. 39-51
  
• Wolfgang Effelsberg:
  Fixing Pages in Database Buffer. 52-59
  
• Mukul K. Sinha:
  Constraints: Consistency and Integrity. 60-63
  
• Haim Kilov:
  An Approach to the User Interface and Semantic Integrity for a Relational DBMS. 64-71
  
• Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro:
  The Optimal Selection of Secondary Indices is NP-Complete. 72-75
  

Volume 13, Number 3, April 1983

• Michael Stonebraker:
  Chairman's Column. 1-3
  
• Patricia G. Selinger:
  Notes from the Vice Chairperson. 4-5
  
• Jonathan J. King:
  CfP: SIGART Special Issue on AI and Databases. 6
  
• ICOD-2 Program Summary. 7-8
  
• David C. Wood:
  Letter. 9-10
  
• David S. Reiner, Arnon Rosenthal:
  How the DBA Stole Christmas, or The Case for Separately Compiled Access Modules. 11-12
  
• Patrick A. V. Hall:
  Adding Database Management to Ada. 13-17
  
• Winfried Lamersdorf:
  Comparison of Four Relational Data Model Specifications. 18-31
  
• Antonio L. Furtado:
  An Informal Approach to Formal Specifications. 32-41
  
• Michael L. Brodie:
  Research Issues in Database Specification. 42-45
  
• Roger M. Tagg:
  Interfacing a Query Language to a CODASYL DBMS. 46-64
  
• Ken Meyer, John Doughty:
  The Devolution of Functional Analysis. 65-91
  

Volume 13, Number 4, June 1983