Volume 35    Number 4    December 2006

Regular Research Articles | Industry Perspectives | Research Centers Event Reports | Database Principles | Distinguished Database Profiles TODS Report ENTIRE ISSUE - 78 pages (in: PDF) SIGMOD Officers, Committees and Awards (also in: PDF) Regular Research Articles Why is Schema Matching Tough and What Can We Do About It? Avigdor Gal Available in: PDF TPCC-UVa: An Open-Source TPC-C Implementation for Global Performance Measurement of Computer Systems Diego R. Llanos Available in: PDF XML Search: Languages, INEX and Scoring Sihem Amer-Yahia, and Mounia Lalmas Available in: PDF Relaxed Space Bounding for Moving Objects: A Case for the Buddy Tree Shuqiao Guo, Zhiyong Huang, H. V. Jagadish, Beng Chin Ooi, and Zhenjie Zhang Available in: PDF An Online Bibliography on Scheme Evolution Erhard Rahm, and Philip A. Bernstein Available in: PDF Industry Perspectives The ADO.NET Entity Framework: Making the Conceptual Level Real Jose A. Blakeley, David Campbell, S. Muralidhar, and Anil Nori Available in: PDF Research Centers Data Management for a Smart Earth: The Swiss NCCR-MICS Initiative Karl Aberer, Gustavo Alonso, and Donald Kossmann Available in: PDF Event Reports Report of the Second International Workshop on Data Management on Modern Hardware (DaMoN'06) Anastassia Ailamaki, Peter Boncz, Stefan Manegold Available in: PDF URL: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~damon2006/ A Report on the Eighth International Workshop on Data Warehousing and OLAP (DOLAP'06) Juan Trujillo, and Il-Yeol Song Available in: PDF URL: http://gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/congresos/dolap05/ ICDE 2006 Ph.D. Workshop Report Wai Gen Yee, and Shamkant B. Navathe Available in: PDF URL: http://ir.iit.edu/~waigen/icde06phd/ Report on the Models of Trust for the Web Workshop (MTW'06) Tim Finin, Lalana Kagal, and Daniel Olmedilla Available in: PDF URL: http://www.l3s.de/~olmedilla/events/MTW06_Workshop.html Database Principles Normalization Theory for XML Marcelo Arenas Available in: PDF Distinguished Database Profiles Gerome Miklau Speaks Out on His SIGMOD Distinguished Dissertation Award, How Great It Is to Be a Professor, and More Marianne Winslett Available in: PDF URL: http://www.cs.umass.edu/~miklau/ Yannis Ioannidis Speaks Out on Database Research Funding in Europe, the Importance of Being Uncertain, Teaching as Show Business, the History of Histograms, and More Marianne Winslett Available in: PDF URL: http://cgi.di.uoa.gr/~yannis/ TODS Report Changes to the TODS Editorial Board Richard Snodgrass Available in: PDF Last update: March 28, 2007 Previous Issue: September 2006 Next Issue: March 2007 Please send comments or suggestions to Alexandros Labrinidis.