SIGMOD Record - web edition / March 1997

SIGMOD OFFICERS, COMMITTEES, AND AWARDS

EDITOR'S NOTES

SPECIAL SECTION ON ENVIRONMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS

• Guest Editor's Foreword O. Gunther

• Integrating Modelling Systems for Environmental Management Information Systems D. J. Abel, K. Taylor, D. Kuo

• Improving Access to Environmental Data Using Context Information A. Tomasic, E. Simon

• WWW-UDK: A Web-based Environmental Meta-Information System R. Kramer, R. Nikolai, A. Koschel, C. Rolker, P. Lockemann

• Management of Data and Services in the Environmental Information System (UIS) of Baden-Wurttemberg W-F. Riekert, R. Mayer-foll, and G. Wiest

• Data management for Earth System Science J. Frew, J. Dozier

• Open GIS and On-Line Environmental Libraries K. Gardels

• Mediator Languages --- a Proposal for a Standard P. Buneman, L. Raschid, J. Ullman

• A Consumer Viewpoint on ``Mediator Languages --- a Proposal for a Standard'' A. Rosenthal, E. Hughes, S. Renner, L. Seligman

• Min-Max Compression Methods for Medical Image Databases K. Karadimitriou, J. M. Tyler

• Converting Relational to Object-Oriented Databases J. Fong

• Extraction of Object-Oriented Structures from Existing Relational Databases S. Ramanathan, J. Hodges

• An Overview of Data Warehousing and OLAP Technology S. Chaudhuri, U. Dayal

• Query Previews for Networked Information Systems: A Case Study with NASA Environmental Data K. Doan, C. Plaisant, B. Shneiderman, T. Bruns

• Opportunities in Information Management and Assurance X. Qian

• BNCOD

• HPTS

• ICDE97