The VLDB Journal, Volume 4

Volume 4, Number 1, January 1995

• Title, Announcement.
  

• Panos Constantopoulos, Matthias Jarke, John Mylopoulos, Yannis Vassiliou:
  The Software Information Base: A Server for Reuse. 1-43
  
• Chris Clifton, Hector Garcia-Molina, David Bloom:
  HyperFile: A Data and Query Model for Documents. 45-86
  
• Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi, Richard Jeffers, Lijing Lin:
  Ordered Shared Locks for Real-Time Databases. 87-126
  
• Asit Dan, Philip S. Yu, Jen-Yao Chung:
  Characterization of Database Access Pattern for Analytic Prediction of Buffer Hit Probability. 127-154
  

Volume 4, Number 2, April 1995

• Title.
  

• Joan Peckham, Bonnie MacKellar, Michael Doherty:
  Data Model for Extensible Support of Explicit Relationships in Design Databases. 157-191
  
• Ernest Teniente, Antoni Olivé:
  Updating Knowledge Bases While Maintaining Their Consistency. 193-241
  
• Ralf Hartmut Güting, Markus Schneider:
  Realm-Based Spatial Data Types: The ROSE Algebra. 243-286
  
• Marjorie Templeton, Herbert Henley, Edward Maros, Darrel J. Van Buer:
  InterViso: Dealing With the Complexity of Federated Database Access. 287-317
  

Volume 4, Number 3, July 1995

• Title, Preface to the Special Issue on Persistent Object Systems.
  

• Malcolm P. Atkinson, Ronald Morrison:
  Orthogonally Persistent Object Systems. 319-401
  
• Antonio Albano, Giorgio Ghelli, Renzo Orsini:
  Fibonacci: A Programming Language for Object Databases. 403-444
  
• M. Tamer Özsu, Randal J. Peters, Duane Szafron, Boman Irani, Anna Lipka, Adriana Muñoz:
  TIGUKAT: A Uniform Behavioral Objectbase Management System. 445-492
  
• Véronique Benzaken, Anne Doucet:
  Thémis: A Database Programming Language Handling Integrity Constraints. 493-517
  
• Alfons Kemper, Donald Kossmann:
  Adaptable Pointer Swizzling Strategies in Object Bases: Design, Realization, and Quantitative Analysis. 519-566
  

Volume 4, Number 4, October 1995

• Title, Foreword, VLDB Journal to be published electronically, Index Vol. 4.
  

• Daniel Barbará, Tomasz Imielinski:
  Sleepers and Workaholics: Caching Strategies in Mobile Environments. 567-602
  
• Chris Nyberg, Tom Barclay, Zarka Cvetanovic, Jim Gray, David B. Lomet:
  AlphaSort: A Cache-Sensitive Parallel External Sort. 603-627
  
• Seth J. White, David J. DeWitt:
  QuickStore: A High Performance Mapped Object Store. 629-673
  
• Arun N. Swami, K. Bernhard Schiefer:
  Estimating Page Fetches for Index Scans with Finite LRU Buffers. 675-701
  

• Gad M. Landau, Jeanette P. Schmidt, Vassilis J. Tsotras:
  Historical Queries Along Multiple Lines of Time Evolution. 703-726
  
• Serge Abiteboul, Catriel Beeri:
  The Power of Languages for the Manipulation of Complex Values. 727-794