Volume 30    Number 3    September 2001

» Call for Book Reviews [ See also: General Information | Copyright Information | Influential Papers Column | Special Issue CFPs ] Starting with the December 2001 issue, SIGMOD RECORD will publish regularly book reviews on recent books of interest to the data management community. We plan to publish two or more reviews per issue. The review column will be organized into three categories: Standard Database Textbooks Special Topic Books on Databases Related Areas and New Directions Your contribution is requested. If you are interested in submitting a book review contact karl.aberer@epfl.ch. We can support you in obtaining a copy of a book, if needed. You may consider reviewing a book you have selected on your own or select one from a list of books that is provided in this page (http://www.acm.org/sigmod/record/bookreviews.html) There you will also find additional information related to the book review column. The length of a book review should not exceed 2 pages. Reviews for the forthcoming December 2001 issue should be submitted by October 1st, 2001. Book reviews are a most relevant service to the reader community, a platform to promote the invaluable contributions of the book authors to the readers, and last but not least an opportunity for the reviewer to learn more about the currently available literature and the current state of a research field. Over time the book reviews will complement the growing knowledge base supporting database research, including the ACM Anthology, the Computer Science Bibliography and the ACM Digital Reviews. For all these reasons we are looking forward to a lively response to this call. Contact: Karl Aberer LSIR - Distributed Information Systems Laboratory EPFL-DSC 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland Email: karl.aberer@epfl.ch Tel: +41-21-693 4679 Fax: +41-21-693 8115 Books proposed for the September 2001 Call (deadline October 1): STANDARD DATABASE TEXTBOOKS 1. Database Systems: The Complete Book, 1/e by Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Jennifer D. Widom Published by PRENTICE HALL, Copyright 2002, 1100 pp. ISBN 0-13-031995-3 2. Database and Transaction Processing: An Application-Oriented Approach by Arthur Bernstein, Michael Kifer, Philip M. Lewis Published by ADDISON-WESLEY, Copyright 2002, 800 pp. ISBN 0-201-70872-8 3. Database Systems Concepts by Abraham Silberschatz, Henry Korth, S. Sudarshan Published by MCGRAW-HILL, Copyright 2002, 1088 pp. ISBN 0-072-28363-7 4. Transactional Information Systems: Theory, Algorithms, and the Practice of Concurrency Control and Recovery by Gerhard Weikum, Gottfried Vossen The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems, Jim Gray, Series Editor Published by MORGAN KAUFMAN, Copyright 2001, 944 pp. ISBN 1-55860-508-8 SPECIAL DATABASE TOPICS 5. Mining the World Wide Web, An Information Search Approach by George Chang, Marcus J. Healey, James A. M. McHugh, Jason T. L. Wang The Kluwer International Series on Information Retrieval, Bruce Croft, Series Editor Published by KLUWER, Copyright 2001, 192 pp. ISBN 0-7923-7349-9 6. Principles of Data Mining by David J. Hand, Heikki Mannila and Padhraic Smyth Published by MIT PRESS, Copyright 2001, 425 pp. ISBN 0-262-08290-X 7. Fundamentals of Data Warehouses by Jarke, M., Lenzerini, M., Vassiliou, Y., Vassiliadis, P. Published by SPRINGER, Copyright 2001, 235 pp. ISBN 3-540-42089-4 8. Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques by Jiawei Han, Micheline Kamber Published by MORGAN KAUFFMAN, Copyright 2000, 500 pp. ISBN 1-55860-489-8 GENERAL INTEREST 9. What Will Be : How the New World of Information Will Change Our Lives by Michael L. Dertouzos, Michael L. Dertrouzos, Bill Gates Published by HARPERBUSINESS, Copyright 1998, 288 pp. ISBN 0-06251-540-3 10. Information Warfare and Security by Dorothy E. Denning Published by ACM PRESS, Copyright 1999, 544 pp. ISBN 0-201-43303-6 11. Mobility: Processes, Computers, and Agents by Edited by Dejan Milojicic, Fred Douglis, Richard Wheeler Published by ACM PRESS, Copyright 1998, 704 pp. ISBN 0-201-37928-7 12. Small Worlds: The Dynamics of Networks between Order and Randomness by Duncan J. Watts Published by PRINCETON, Copyright 1999, 266 pp. Last update: September 21, 2001 Send comments or suggestions to Alexandros Labrinidis, the webmaster.