SIGMOD Record Volume 26, Number 3, September 1997

SIGMOD OFFICERS, COMMITTEES, AND AWARDS

EDITOR'S NOTES

CHAIR'S MESSAGE

REPORTS

• Database Systems --- Breaking Out of the Box
  A. Silberschatz, S. Zdonik

• Report on DART '96
  K. Ramamritham, N. Soparkar

• A Query Language for a Web-Site Management System
  M. Fernandez, D. Florescu, A. Levy, D. Suciu

• Quasi-Cubes: Exploiting Approximations in Multidimensional Databases
  D. Barbara, M. Sullivan

• OGDI: Toward Interoperability Among Geospatial Databases
  G. Clement, C. Larouche, D. Gouin, P. Morin, H. Kucera

• An Extended Entity-Relationship Model for Geographic Applications
  T. Hadzilacos, N. Tryfona

• Asserting Beliefs in MLS Relational Models
  N. A. Jukic, S. V. Vrbsky

• Lore: A Database Management System for Semistructured Data
  J. McHugh, S. Abiteboul, R. Goldman, D. Quass, J. Widom

RESEARCH CENTERS

• Research in Databases and Data-Intensive Applications--Computer Science Dept. and FZI, University of Karlsruhe
  B. Konig-Ries, P. C. Lockemann

ANNOUNCEMENTS AND CALLS FOR PAPERS

• SIGMOD98

• PODS98

• ER97