(All articles are in postscript format.)

SIGMOD OFFICERS, COMMITTEES, AND AWARDS

EDITOR'S NOTES

CHAIR'S MESSAGE

SPECIAL SECTION ON MANAGEMENT OF SEMI-STRUCTURED DATA

• Foreword - Management of Semistructured Data
  D. Suciu

• Wrapper Generation for Semi-structured Internet Sources
  N. Ashish and C. Knoblock

• Semistructured and Structured Data in the Web: Going Back and Forth
  P. Atzeni, G. Mecca, P. Merialdo

• Integrating Dynamically-Fetched External Information into a DBMS for Semistructured Data
  J. McHugh and J. Widom

• Extracting Entity Profiles from Semistructured Information Spaces
  R. Nado and S. Huffman

• Inferring Structure in Semistructured Data
  S. Nestorov, S. Abiteboul, R. Motwani

REPORTS

• Intelligent Access to Heterogeneous Information Sources - Report on the 4th KRDB Workshop
  F. Baader, M. Jeusfeld, W. Nutt

• Workshop on Workflow Management in Scientific and Engineering Applications
  R. RcClatchey, G. Vossen

• Research Issues in Federated Database Systems - Report on the EFDBS '97 Workshop
  S. Conrad, B. Eaglestone, W. Hasselbring, M. Roantree, F. Saltor, M. Schonhoff, M. Strassler, M. Vermeer

SYSTEMS AND PROTOTYPES

• Virtual Database Technology
  A. Gupta, V. Harinarayan, A. Rajaraman

INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVES

• Industry Perspectives
  L. Seligman

• The Five-Minute Rule Ten Years Later and Other Computer Storage Rules of Thumb
  J. Gray, G. Graefe

RESEARCH CENTERS

• Information Systems Reseach at George Mason University
  S. Jajodia, D. Barbara, A. Brodsky, L. Kerschberg, A. Motro, E. Sibley, X. Wang
  Related URL: http://www.isse.gmu.edu/

• The Database and Information System Research Group at the University of Ulm
  P. Dadam and W. Klas
  Related URL: http://www.informatik.uni-ulm.de/dbis/index_e.html

CALLS FOR PAPERS

• Workshop on Foundations of Models and Languages for Data and Objects

  Related URL: http://www.in.tu-clausthal.de/~ripke/workshop98.html

• SIGMETRICS Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Tools

  Related URL: http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/SPDT98/