The VLDB Journal, Volume 6

Volume 6, Number 1, January 1997

• Georgios Evangelidis, David B. Lomet, Betty Salzberg:
  The hB-Pi-Tree: A Multi-Attribute Index Supporting Concurrency, Recovery and Node Consolidation. 1-25
  
• Gennady Antoshenkov:
  Dictionary-Based Order-Preserving String Compression. 26-39
  
• Vigyan Singhal, Alan Jay Smith:
  Analysis of Locking Behavior in Three Real Database Systems. 40-52
  
• Manish Mehta, David J. DeWitt:
  Data Placement in Shared-Nothing Parallel Database Systems. 53-72
  

Volume 6, Number 2, May 1997

• Mike P. Papazoglou, Bernd J. Krämer:
  A Database Model for Object Dynamics. 73-96
  
• Tiziana Catarci, Giuseppe Santucci, John Cardiff:
  Graphical Interaction with Heterogeneous Databases. 97-120
  
• Ming-Syan Chen, Hui-I Hsiao, Philip S. Yu:
  On Applying Hash Filters to Improving the Execution of Multi-Join Queries. 121-131
  
• Yannis E. Ioannidis, Raymond T. Ng, Kyuseok Shim, Timos K. Sellis:
  Parametric Query Optimization. 132-151
  
• Sharad Mehrotra, Henry F. Korth, Abraham Silberschatz:
  Concurrency Control in Hierarchical Multidatabase Systems. 152-172
  

Volume 6, Number 3, 1997

• Edward E. Cobb:
  The Impact of Technology on Commercial Transaction Processing. 173-190
  
• Michael Steinbrunn, Guido Moerkotte, Alfons Kemper:
  Heuristic and Randomized Optimization for the Join Ordering Problem. 191-208
  
• Euthimios Panagos, Alexandros Biliris:
  Synchronization and Recovery in a Client-Server Storage System. 209-223
  
• David B. Lomet, Betty Salzberg:
  Concurrency and Recovery for Index Trees. 224-240
  
• Laura M. Haas, Michael J. Carey, Miron Livny, Amit Shukla:
  Seeking the Truth About ad hoc Join Costs. 241-256
  
• Mike P. Papazoglou, Bernd J. Krämer:
  Erratum: A Database Model for Object Dynamics. 257-260
  

Volume 6, Number 4, November 1997

• Gustav Fahl, Tore Risch:
  Query Processing Over Object Views of Relational Data. 261-281
  
• Oscar Díaz, Arturo Jaime:
  EXACT: An Extensible Approach to Active Object-Oriented Databases. 282-295
  
• Klemens Böhm, Karl Aberer, Erich J. Neuhold, Xiaoya Yang:
  Structured Document Storage and Refined Declarative and Navigational Access Mechanisms in HyperStorM. 296-311
  
• Thomas A. Mück, Martin L. Polaschek:
  A Configrable Type Hierarchy Index for OODB. 312-332
  
• Stefan Berchtold, Daniel A. Keim, Hans-Peter Kriegel:
  Using Extended Feature Objects for Partial Similarity Retrieval. 333-348