SIGMOD Record - web edition / June 2002

SIGMOD Officers, Committees and Awards (also in: PDF)

Editor's Notes (also in: Postscript and PDF)

Chair's Message (in: gzipped Postscript and PDF)

Articles

Bringing Order to Query Optimization

G. Slivinskas, C. Jensen, R. Snodgrass
Available in: gzipped Postscript and PDF

The Design of a Retrieval Technique for High-Dimensional Data on Tertiary Storage

R. Orlandic, J. Lukaszuk, C. Swietlik
Available in: gzipped Postscript and PDF

A Pictorial Query Language for Querying Geographic Databases using Positional and OLAP Operators

E. Pourabbas, M. Rafanelli
Available in: gzipped Postscript and PDF

Investigating XQuery for Querying Across Database Object Types

N. Wiegand
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MPEG and Multimedia Database Systems

H. Kosch
Available in: gzipped Postscript and PDF

Cluster Validity Methods: Part I

M. Halkidi, Y. Batistakis, M. Vazirgiannis
Available in: gzipped Postscript and PDF

From Ternary Relationship to Relational Tables: A Case Against Common Beliefs

R. Camps Pare
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Distinguished Database Profiles

David DeWitt Speaks Out

Marianne Winslett
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URL: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~dewitt

Influential Papers

Reminiscences on Influential Papers - Kenneth A. Ross ed.

M. Fernandez, K. Shim
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Book Reviews

Introduction

Karl Aberer
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URL: http://www.acm.org/sigmod/record/bookreviews.html

Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques - by J. Han, M. Kamber

Reviewer: F. Berzal, N. Marin
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Mining the World Wide Web: An Information Search Approach - by G. Chang et al

Reviewer: A. Ouksel
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Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence for E-Commerce - by A. Simon, S. Shaffer

Reviewer: F. Goethals
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Reports

Report on the NSF Workshop on Building an Infrastructure for Mobile and Wireless Systems

Birgitta Konig-Ries, Kia Makki, Sam Makki, Charles Perkins, Niki Pissinou, Peter Reiher, Peter Scheuermann, Jari Veijalainen, Ouri Wolfson
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URL: http://it2.eng.fiu.edu/Workshop/Program/Program.html

Report on the ACM Fourth International Workshop on Data Warehousing and OLAP (DOLAP 2001)

J. Hammer
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URL: http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/dolap/dolap2001.html

Surveys

A Brief Survey of Web Data Extraction Tools

A. Laender, B. Ribeiro-Neto, A. da Silva, J. Teixeira
Available in: gzipped Postscript and PDF

Systems and Prototypes

Phoenix Project: Fault-Tolerant Applications

R. Barga, D. Lomet
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URL: http://www.research.microsoft.com/db/phoenix/

Standards

SQL/XML is Making Good Progress

A. Eisenberg, J. Melton
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Database Principles

Combining Fuzzy Information: an Overview

R. Fagin
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