SIGMOD Record, Volume 26

Volume 26, Number 1, March 1997

• Michael J. Franklin:
  Editor's Notes. 2
  

• Oliver Günther:
  Environment Information Systems - Guest Editor's Foreword. 3-4
  
• David J. Abel, Kerry L. Taylor, Dean Kuo:
  Integrating Modelling Systems for Environmental Management Information Systems. 5-10
  
• Anthony Tomasic, Eric Simon:
  Improving Access to Environmental Data Using Context Information. 11-15
  
• Ralf Kramer, Ralf Nikolai, Arne Koschel, Claudia Rolker, Peter C. Lockemann, Andree Keitel, Rudolf Legat, Konrad Zirm:
  WWW-UDK: A Web-based Environmental Meta-Information System. 16-21
  
• Wolf-Fritz Riekert, Roland Mayer-Föll, Gerlinde Wiest:
  Management of Data and Services in the Environmental Information System (UIS) of Baden-Württemberg. 22-26
  
• James Frew, Jeff Dozier:
  Data Management for Earth System Science. 27-31
  
• Kenn Gardels:
  Open GIS and On-Line Environmental Libraries. 32-38
  

• Peter Buneman, Louiqa Raschid, Jeffrey D. Ullman:
  Mediator Languages - a Proposal for a Standard. 39-44
  
• Arnon Rosenthal, Eric Hughes, Scott Renner, Leonard J. Seligman:
  A Consumer Viewpoint on "Mediator Languages - a Proposal for a Standard". 45-46
  

• Kosmas Karadimitriou, John M. Tyler:
  Min-Max Compression Methods for Medical Image Databases. 47-52
  
• Joseph Fong:
  Converting Relational to Object-Oriented Databases. 53-58
  
• Shekar Ramanathan, Julia E. Hodges:
  Extraction of Object-Oriented Structures from Existing Relational Databases. 59-64
  

• Surajit Chaudhuri, Umeshwar Dayal:
  An Overview of Data Warehousing and OLAP Technology. 65-74
  

• Khoa Doan, Catherine Plaisant, Ben Shneiderman, Tom Bruns:
  Query Previews for Networked Information Systems: A Case Study with NASA Environmental Data. 75-81
  

• Xiaolei Qian:
  Opportunities in Information Management and Assurance. 82-84
  

Volume 26, Number 2, June 1997

Volume 26, Number 3, September 1997

• Michael J. Franklin:
  Editor's Notes. 2
  
• Richard T. Snodgrass:
  Chair's Message. 3
  

• Mary F. Fernandez, Daniela Florescu, Alon Y. Levy, Dan Suciu:
  A Query Language for a Web-Site Management System. 4-11
  
• Daniel Barbará, Mark Sullivan:
  Quasi-Cubes: Exploiting Approximations in Multidimensional Databases. 12-17
  
• Gilles Clement, Christian Larouche, Denis Gouin, Paul Morin, Henry Kucera:
  OGDI: Toward Interoperability among Geospatial Databases. 18-23
  
• Thanasis Hadzilacos, Nectaria Tryfona:
  An Extended Entity-Relationship Model for Geographic Applications. 24-29
  
• Nenad Jukic, Susan V. Vrbsky:
  Asserting Beliefs in MLS Relational Models. 30-35
  

• Abraham Silberschatz, Stanley B. Zdonik:
  Database Systems - Breaking Out of the Box. 36-50
  
• Krithi Ramamritham, Nandit Soparkar:
  Report on DART '96: Databases: Active and Real-Time (Concepts meet Practice). 51-53
  - transparencies of the invited presentations

• Jason McHugh, Serge Abiteboul, Roy Goldman, Dallan Quass, Jennifer Widom:
  Lore: A Database Management System for Semistructured Data. 54-66
  

• Birgitta König-Ries, Peter C. Lockemann:
  Research in Databases and Data-Intensive Applications - Computer Science Department and FZI, University of Karlsruhe. 67-72
  

Volume 26, Number 4, December 1997

• Michael J. Franklin:
  Editor's Notes. 2
  
• Richard T. Snodgrass:
  Chair's Message. 3
  

• Dan Suciu:
  Foreword: Management of Semistructured Data. 4-7
  
• Naveen Ashish, Craig A. Knoblock:
  Wrapper Generation for Semi-structured Internet Sources. 8-15
  
• Paolo Atzeni, Giansalvatore Mecca, Paolo Merialdo:
  Semistructured und Structured Data in the Web: Going Back and Forth. 16-23
  
• Jason McHugh, Jennifer Widom:
  Integrating Dynamically-Fetched External Information into a DBMS for Semistructured Data. 24-31
  
• Robert A. Nado, Scott B. Huffman:
  Extracting Entity Profiles from Semistructured Information Spaces. 32-38
  
• Svetlozar Nestorov, Serge Abiteboul, Rajeev Motwani:
  Infering Structure in Semistructured Data. 39-43
  

• Franz Baader, Manfred A. Jeusfeld, Werner Nutt:
  Intelligent Access to Heterogeneous Information Sources: Report on the 4th Workshop on Knowledge Representation Meets Databases. 44-48
  
• Richard McClatchey, Gottfried Vossen:
  Workshop on Workflow Management in Scientific and Engineering Applications - Report. 49-53
  
• Stefan Conrad, Barry Eaglestone, Wilhelm Hasselbring, Mark Roantree, Fèlix Saltor, Martin Schönhoff, Markus Strässler, Mark W. W. Vermeer:
  Research Issues in Federated Database Systems: Report of EFDBS '97 Workshop. 54-56
  

• Ashish Gupta, Venky Harinarayan, Anand Rajaraman:
  Virtual Database technology. 57-61
  

• Leonard J. Seligman:
  Industry Perspectives. 62
  
• Jim Gray, Goetz Graefe:
  The Five-Minute Rule Ten Years Later, and Other Computer Storage Rules of Thumb. 63-68
  

• Sushil Jajodia, Daniel Barbará, Alexander Brodsky, Larry Kerschberg, Amihai Motro, Edgar H. Sibley, Xiaoyang Sean Wang:
  Information Systems Research at George Mason University. 69-74
  
• Peter Dadam, Wolfgang Klas:
  The Database and Information System Research Group at the University of Ulm. 75-79