SIGMOD Record Volume 25, Number 3, September 1996

EDITOR'S NOTES

ARTICLES

• Domains, Relations and Religious Wars
  R. Camps

• Guidelines for Presentation and Comparison of Indexing Techniques
  J. Zobel, A. Moffat, K. Ramamohanarao

• Much Ado About Shared-Nothing
  M.G. Norman, T. Zurek, P. Thanisch

• On the Cost of Monitoring and Reorganization of Object Bases for Clustering
  C.A. Gerlhof, A. Kemper, G. Moerkotte

• Open Issues in Parallel Query Optimization
  W. Hasan, D. Florescu, P. Valduriez

• Control Strategies for Complex Relational Query Processing in Shared Nothing Systems
  L. Brunie, H. Kosch

REPORTS

• The Active Database Management System Manifesto: A Rulebase of ADBMS Features
  ACT-NET Consortium

• Report on First International Workshop on Real-Time Database Systems
  A. Bestavros, K.-J. Lin, S. Son

SYSTEMS AND PROTOTYPES

• The BeSS Object Storage Manager: Architecture Overview
  A. Biliris, E. Panagos

RESEARCH CENTERS

• Middle East Technical University Software Research and Development Center
  A. Dogac

INDUSTRY NEWS

• OLAP, Relational, and Multidimensional Database Systems
  G. Colliat

• UniSQL's Next-Generation Object-Relational Database Management System
  A. D'Andrea, P. Janus

FUNDING NEWS

• Scientist's Called Upon to Take Actions
  X. Qian