SIGMOD Officers, Committees and Awards

Editor's Notes (also in Postscript ¹)

Message from Editor-in-Chief, ACM TODS

Chair's Message (also in Postscript)

Statement from the Treasurer (also in Postscript)

SPECIAL SECTION ON SEMANTIC INTEROPERABILITY IN GLOBAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS

• A brief introduction to the research area and the special section
  A. Ouksel and A. Sheth
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• Semantic Integration of Environmental Models for Application to Global Information Systems and Decision-Making
  D. Mackay
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• Semantic and Pedagogic Interoperability Mechanisms in the ARIADNE Educational Repository
  E. Forte, F. Haenni, K. Warkentyne, E. Duval, K. Cardinaels, E. Vervaet, K. Hendrikx, M. Wentland Forte, F. Simillion
  Available in: gzipped Postscript, gzipped PDF and gzipped MS Word format

• Unpacking The Semantics of Source and Usage To Perform Semantic Reconciliation In Large-Scale Information Systems
  K. Smith, L. Obrst
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• Semantic Video Indexing: Approaches and Issues
  A. Hampapur
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• Contextualizing the Information Space in Federated Digital Libraries
  M. Papazoglou, J. Hoppenbrouwers
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• Dynamic Service Matchmaking Among Agents in Open Information Environments
  K. Sycara, M. Klusch, S. Widoff, J. Lu
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• Semantic Integration of Semistructured and Structured Data Sources
  S. Bergamaschi, S. Castano and M. Vincini
  Available in: gzipped Postscript and gzipped PDF

• Agent-Based Semantic Interoperability in InfoSleuth
  J. Fowler, B. Perry, M. Nodine, B. Bargmeyer
  Available in: gzipped Postscript and gzipped PDF

• Semantic Interoperability in Information Services:
  Experiencing with CoopWARE
  A. Gal
  Available in: gzipped Postscript and gzipped PDF

Reports

• Report on the 13th Brazilian Symposium on Database Systems (SBBD '98)
  M. Nascimento, C. Medeiros
  Available in: gzipped Postscript and gzipped PDF

• Efficient Materialization and Use of Views in Data Warehouses
  M. Farias de Souza, M. Costa Sampaio
  Available in: gzipped Postscript, gzipped PDF and gzipped MS Word format

Articles

• Design Principles for Data-Intensive Web Sites
  S. Ceri, P. Fraternali, S. Paraboschi
  Available in: gzipped Postscript and gzipped PDF

• A study on data point search for HG-trees
  J. Kuan and P. Lewis
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Systems & Prototypes

• The OASIS Multidatabase Prototype
  M. Roantree, J. Murphy, W. Hasselbring
  Available in: gzipped Postscript and gzipped PDF
  URL: http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/~oasis

• VideoAnyhere: A System for Searching and Managing Distributed Heterogeneous Video Assets
  A. Sheth, C. Bertram, K. Shah
  Available in: gzipped Postscript and gzipped MS Word format

Influential Papers

• Reminiscences on Influential Papers - R. Snodgrass ed.
  S. Abiteboul, S. Cluet, M. Franklin, G. Lohman, D. Lomet, G. Ozoyoglu, R. Ramakrishnan, K. Ross, T. Sellis, P. Valduriez
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Industry Perspectives

• NSF Workshop on Industrial/Academic Cooperation in Database Systems
  M. Carey and L. Seligman
  Available in: gzipped Postscript, gzipped PDF and gzipped MS Word format
  URL: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/groups/IEEE/ind-acad/webpage.html

Standards

• SQL:1999, formerly known as SQL3
  A. Eisenberg and J. Melton
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Call for Papers

• ICTEC'99 - International Conference on Telecommunications and Electronic Commerce
  Also available in: Postscript and MS Word format
  URL: http://cottonian.ogsm.vanderbilt.edu/ICTEC99/

Call for Participation

• MobiCom '99 - Mobile Computing and Networking
  MobiCom '99 - August 17-19 @ Seattle, Washington, USA
  URL: http://mobicom99.research.microsoft.com

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