SIGMOD Record - web edition / March 1998

Editor's Notes

Chair's Message

Information Director's Message (in html), also available in postscript.

Reports

• Workshop Report on Experiences Using Object Data Management in the Real-World
  A. Chaudhri

• Report on the Second IEEE Metadata Conference (Metadata '97)
  R. Musick, C. Miller

Invited Features

• Predator: A Resource for Database Research
  P. Seshadri
  Related URL: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/database/predator/index.html

• Materialized Views and Data Warehouses
  N. Roussopoulos

Articles

• Applications of the JAVA programming language to database management
  B. Burton, V. Marek

• Unbundling Active Functionality
  S. Gatziu, A. Koschel, G. von Bultzingsloewen, H. Fritschi

• Mining Fuzzy Association Rules in Databases
  C. Kuok, A. Fu, M. Wong

• An Extensible Notation for Spatiotemporal Index Queries
  V. Tsotras, C. Jensen, R. Snodgrass

Influential Papers

• Reminiscences on Influential Papers - R. Snodgrass ed.
  E. Bertino, M. Carey, J. Gray, H. Korth, B. Salzberg, D. Shasha

Systems and Prototypes

• T2: A Customizable Parallel Database for Multi-Dimensional Data
  C. Chang, A. Acharya, A. Sussman, J. Saltz

• Workflow History Management
  P. Koksal, S. Arpinar, A. Dogac

Industry Perspectives

• Towards a Richer Web Object Model
  F. Manola

• Where Will Object Techonology Drive Data Administration?
  A. Rosenthal

Research Surveys

• Repositories and Object Oriented Databases
  P. Bernstein

• Towards On-Line Analytical Mining in Large Databases (gzipped), also available uncompressed
  J. Han
  Related URL: http://db.cs.sfu.ca/DBMiner/

Call for Papers

• Third IFCIS Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS'98)
  Related URL: http://www.kean.edu/~mhalper/coopis98.html