ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS) , Volume 3

Volume 3, Number 1, March 1978

Jack Minker:
Search Strategy and Selection Function for an Inferential Relational System. 1-31
William G. Tuel Jr.:
Optimum Reorganization Points for Linearly Growing Files. 32-40
Clement T. Yu, W. S. Luk, M. K. Siu:
On the Estimation of the Number of Desired Records with Respect to a Given Query. 41-56
Stanley Y. W. Su, Ahmed Emam:
CASDAL: CASSM'a DAta Language. 57-91
Francis Y. L. Chin:
Security in Statistical Databases for Queries with Small Counts. 92-104

Gary G. Hendrix, Earl D. Sacerdoti, Daniel Sagalowicz, Jonathan Slocum:
Developing a Natural Language Interface to Complex Data. 105-147
Glen G. Langdon Jr.:
A Note on Associative Processors for Data Management. 148-158
Werner E. Kluge:
Data File Management in Shift Register Memories. 159-177
Daniel J. Rosenkrantz, Richard Edwin Stearns, Philip M. Lewis II:
System Level Concurrency Control for Distributed Database Systems. 178-198

Claude Delobel:
Normalization and Hierarchical Dependencies in the Relational Data Model. 201-222
Alan Jay Smith:
Sequentiality and Prefetching in Database Systems. 223-247
Gunter Schlageter:
Process Synchronization in Database Systems. 248-271
Lee A. Hollaar:
Specialized Merge Processor Networks for Combined Sorted Lists. 272-284
Theo Härder:
Implementing a Generalized Access Path Structure for a Relational Database System. 285-298
Clement T. Yu, M. K. Siu, K. Lam:
On a Partitioning Problem. 299-309
Ronald Fagin:
On an Authorization Mechanism. 310-319

Gerard Salton, A. Wong:
Generation and Search of Clustered Files. 321-346
Jayanta Banerjee, David K. Hsiao, Richard I. Baum:
Concepts and Capabilities of a Database Computer. 347-384
J. Bradley:
An Extended Owner-Coupled Set Data Model and Predicate Calculus for Database Management. 385-416
Ben Shneiderman:
Improving the Human Factors Aspect of Database Interactions. 417-439
Douglas Comer:
The Difficulty of Optimum Index Selection. 440-445