SIGMOD Record Volume 25, Number 1, March 1996

EDITOR'S NOTES

SPECIAL SECTION ON ADVANCES IN REAL-TIME DATABASE SYSTEMS

• Advances in Real-Time Database Systems Research
  A. Bestavros

• Integrating Temporal, Real-Time, and Active Databases
  K. Ramamritham, R. Sivasankaran, J.A. Stankovic, D.T. Towsley, M. Xiong

• Real-Time Index Concurrency Control
  J.R. Haritsa, S. Seshadri

• Real-Time Database - Similarity Semantics and Resource Scheduling
  T.-W. Kuo, A.K. Mok

• Exploiting Main-Memory DBMS Features to Improve Real-Time Concurrency Control Protocols
  O. Ulusoy, A. Buchmann

• Enhancing External Consistency in Real-Time Transactions
  K.-J. Lin, C.-S. Peng

• Improving Timeliness in Real-Time Secure Database Systems
  S.H. Son, R. David, B. Thuraisingham

• Overview of the STanford Real-time Information Processor (STRIP)
  B. Adelberg, B. Kao, H. Garcia-Molina

• DeeDS Towards a Distributed and Active Real-Time Database Systems
  S.F. Andler, J. Hansson, J. Eriksson, J. Mellin, M. Berndtsson, B. Eftring

• Temporal Database Bibliography Update
  V.J. Tsotras, A. Kumar

• Database Research: Achievements and Opportunities into the 21st Century
  A. Silberschatz, M. Stonebraker, J. Ullman, editors

• Workshop Report: The First International Workshop on Active and Real-Time Database Systems (ARTDB-95)
  M. Berndtsson, J. Hansson

• Integrating Contents and Structure in Text Retrieval
  R. Baeza-Yates, G. Novarro

• Lifestreams: A Storage Model for Personal Data
  E. Freeman, D. Gelernter

• Object Query Standards
  A.E. Wade

• Database Research at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
  D.B. Phatak, N.L. Sarda, S. Seshadri, S. Sudarshan

• Database Research at Arizona State University
  S.D. Urban, S.W. Dietrich, F. Golshani

• Illustra's Web DataBlade Module
  J. Gaffney

• MQSeries and CICS Link for Lotus Notes

• Shutdown, Budget, and Funding
  X. Qian

• PDIS '96
• CIKM '96