SIGMOD Record Volume 24, Number 3

SIGMOD Record Volume 24, Number 3, September 1995

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EDITOR'S NOTES

TECHNICAL CORRESPONDENCE AND NOTES

Response to "A Close Look at the IFO Data Model"
S. Abiteboul, R. Hull
Optimizing Jan Jannink's Implementation of B+-tree Deletion
R. Maelbrancke, H. Olivie
Multi-Table Joins Through Bitmapped Join Indices
P. O'Neil, G. Graefe

ARTICLES

Design and User Testing of a Multi-Paradigm Query Interface to an Object-Oriented Database
D.K. Doan, N.W. Paton, A. Kilgour
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Mapping Extended Entity Relationship Model to Object Modeling Technique
J. Fong
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Normalization in OODB Design
B.S. Lee
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An Aspect of Query Optimization in Multidatabase Systems (Extended Abstract)
C. Lee, C.-J. Chen, H. Lu
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An Introduction to Remy's Fast Polymorphic Record Projection
L. Wong
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On the Issue of Valid Time(s) in Temporal Databases
S. Kokkotos, E.V. Ioannidis, T. Panayiotopoulos, C.D. Spyropoulos
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A Framework for Providing Consistent and Recoverable Agent-Based Access to Heterogeneous in Mobile Databases
E. Pitoura, B. Bhargava
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Addressing Techniques Used in Database Object Managers O2 and Orion
A. Gamache, N. Sahraoui
METU Interoperable Database System
A. Dogac et al.
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RESEARCH SURVEYS

Information Finding in a Digital Library: The Stanford Perspective
T.W. Yan, H. Garcia-Molina

RESEARCH CENTERS

Florida International University High Performance Database Research Center
N. Rishe et al.
Data Management Research at The MITRE Corporation
A. Rosenthal, L. Seligman, C. McCollum, B. Blaustein, B. Thuraisingham, E. Lafferty

FUNDING NEWS

Turmoil at NASA, and Numerous Funding Announcements
X. Qian

TRADE PRESS COVERAGE

Why Decision Support Fails and How To Fix It
R. Kimball, K. Strehio

STANDARDS ACTIVITIES

Condition Handling in SQL Persistent Stored Modules
J. Richey

ANNOUNCEMENTS AND CALLS FOR PAPERS

ACM SIGMOD/PODS '96
Conf. on Scientific and Statistical Data Management
IOPADS
Information Systems - Special Issue on Disaster Recovery
Ditributed and Parallel Databases - Special Issue on Digital Libraries
ECOOP '96

Jennifer Widom / widom@db.stanford.edu