SIGMOD Record - web edition / September 1998

Editor's Notes

Chair's Message

Reports

• WebDB '98: International Workshop on the Web and Databases
  P. Atzeni, A. Mendelzon
  Related URL: http://www.dia.uniroma3.it/webdb98/

• KRDB '98: The 5th International Workshop on Knowledge Representation Meets Databases
  A. Borgida, V. Chaudhri, M. Staudt
  Related URL: http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-10/

Articles

• Enhanced Nearest Neighbour Search on the R-tree
  K. Cheung and A. Fu

• Algebraic Change Propagation for Semijoin and Outerjoin Queries
  T. Griffin, B. Kumar

• B-tree Page Size When Caching is Considered
  D. Lomet

Influential Papers

• Reminiscences on Influential Papers - R. Snodgrass ed.
  H. Garcia-Molina, T. Imielinski, D. Maier, P. Selinger, J. Ullman

Systems and Prototypes

• The TriGS Active Object-Oriented Database System - An Overview
  G. Kappel, W. Retschitzegger

Industry Perspectives

• A Case for Intelligent Disks (IDISKs) (Also in PDF format)
  K. Keeton, D. Patterson, J. Hellerstein

Standards

• Standards in Practice (in PDF format)
  A. Eisenberg and J. Melton

Research Surveys

• Database Techniques for the World-Wide Web: A Survey
  D. Florescu, A. Levy, A. Mendelzon

Research Centers

• Database Research at Columbia University
  S. Chang, L. Gravano, G. Kaiser, K. Ross, S. Stolfo

• The Microsoft Database Research Group
  D. Lomet, R. Barga, S. Chaudhuri, P. Larson
  Related URL: http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/db

Call for Papers

• SIGMOD Record Special Section on Electronic Commerce (Also in HTML format)
  Asuman Dogac (asuman@srdc.metu.edu.tr)

• SIGMOD Record Special Section on Semantic Interoperability in Global Information Systems (Also in HTML format)
  Amit Sheth (amit@cs.uga.edu), Aris Ouksel (aris@uic.edu)

• VLDB'99 Conference
  Related URL: http://www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/~vldb99/