SIGMOD Record, Volume 32

Volume 32, Number 1, March 2003

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  Ling Liu:
  Editor's Notes. 2-3
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  Richard T. Snodgrass:
  ACM TODS in this Internet Age. 4-5

Articles

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  S. J. O'Connell, N. Winterbottom:
  Performing Jobs without Decompression in a Compressed Database System. 6-11
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  Georg Gottlob, Christoph Koch, Reinhard Pichler:
  XPath Processing in a Nutshell. 12-19
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  Ya-Hui Chang:
  A Graphical Query Language for Mobile Information Systems. 20-25
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  Ji-Rong Wen, Qing Li, Wei-Ying Ma, HongJiang Zhang:
  A Multi-paradigm Querying Approach for a Generic Multimedia Database Management System. 26-34
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  Elisa Bertino, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Mohand-Said Hacid:
  A Database Approach to Quality of Service Specification in Video Databases. 35-40
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  Michael M. David:
  ANSI SQL Hierarchical Processing Can Fully Integrate Native XML. 41-46
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  Fabien De Marchi, Stéphane Lopes, Jean-Marc Petit, Farouk Toumani:
  Analysis of existing databases at the logical level: the DBA companion project. 47-52

Book Reviews

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  Karl Aberer:
  Call for Book Reviews. 81

Distinguished Database Profiles

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  Marianne Winslett:
  Interview with Jim Gray. 53-61

Influential Papers

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  Kenneth A. Ross, Minos N. Garofalakis, Jeffrey F. Naughton:
  Reminiscences an Influential Papers. 62-63

Reports

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  Zoé Lacroix, Omar Boucelma:
  Report on the First International Workshop an Efficient Web-based Information Systems. 64-68
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  Karl Aberer:
  Report on the First International Conference on Ontologies, Databases and Applications of Semantics. 69-72

Research Centers

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  Sharma Chakravarthy, Y. Alp Aslandogan, Ramez Elmasri, Leonidas Fegaras, Jung-Hwan Oh:
  Database Research at UT Arlington. 73-80

Volume 32, Number 2, June 2003

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  Ling Liu:
  Editor's Notes. 2-3
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  M. Tamer Özsu:
  Chair's Message. 4

Articles

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  Lukasz Golab, M. Tamer Özsu:
  Issues in data stream management. 5-14
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  Nenad Jukic, Svetlozar Nestorov, Susan V. Vrbsky:
  Closing the key loophole in MLS databases. 15-20
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  Georg Gottlob, Christoph Koch, Reinhard Pichler:
  XPath processing in a nutshell. 21-27
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  Debajyoti Mukhopadhyay, Debasis Giri, Sanasam Ranbir Singh:
  An approach to confidence based page ranking for user oriented Web search. 28-33
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  Alberto d'Onofrio, Elaheh Pourabbas:
  Modelling temporal thematic map contents. 34-41
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  Leslie D. Fife, Le Gruenwald:
  Research issues for data communication in mobile ad-hoc network database systems. 42-47
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  Coral Calero, Mario Piattini, Francisco Ruiz:
  Towards a database body of knowledge: a study from Spain. 48-53

Book Reviews

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  Karl Aberer:
  Book review column. 54
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  Vernon Hoffner:
  Fundamentals of data warehouses: 2^nd revised and extended edition. 55-56
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  Mario A. Nascimento:
  Peer-to-peer: harnessing the power of disruptive technologies. 57-58
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  Dale A. Stirling:
  Information rules. 59

Distinguished Database Profiles

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  Marianne Winslett:
  Interview with Michael Stonebraker. 60-67

Database Principles

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  Victor Vianu:
  A Web odyssey: from codd to XML. 68-77

Industry Perspectives

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  Eugene Inseok Chong, Jagannathan Srinivasan, Souripriya Das, Chuck Freiwald, Aravind Yalamanchi, Mahesh Jagannath, Anh-Tuan Tran, Ramkumar Krishnan, Richard Jiang:
  A mapping mechanism to support bitmap index and other auxiliary structures on tables stored as primary B⁺-trees. 78-88

Influential Papers

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  Kenneth A. Ross, Frank Neven, Beng Chin Ooi:
  Reminiscences on Influential Papers. 89

Reports

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  Gerhard Weikum, Harald Schöning, Erhard Rahm:
  Report on the 10th Conference on Database Systems for Business, Technology, and the Web (BTW 2003). 90-92
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  Ana Carolina Salgado, Nina Edelweiss:
  Report on the 17th Brazilian Symposium on Database Systems (SBBD 2002). 93-95

Standards

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  Charles E. Campbell, Andrew Eisenberg, Jim Melton:
  XML schema. 96-101

Career Forum

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  Anastassia Ailamaki, Johannes Gehrke:
  Time management for new faculty. 102-106
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  Marianne Winslett, Xiaosong Ma, Ting Yu:
  Two-Body Job Searches. 107-112

TODS

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  Richard T. Snodgrass:
  TODS Reviewers. 113-114

Volume 32, Number 3, September 2003

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  Ling Liu:
  Editor's Notes. 2-3
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  M. Tamer Özsu:
  Chair's Message. 4
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  Joachim Hammer:
  Treasurer's Message. 5

Articles

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  Donald D. Chamberlin:
  2003 SIGMOD Innovations Award Speech. 6-7
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  Mario A. Nascimento, Jörg Sander, Jeffrey Pound:
  Analysis of SIGMOD's Co-Authorship Graph. 8-10
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  Richard T. Snodgrass:
  Journal relevance. 11-15
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  Alon Y. Halevy:
  Learning about data integration challenges from day one. 16-17
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  Anastassia Ailamaki, Joseph M. Hellerstein:
  Exposing undergraduate students to database system internals. 18-20

Special Topic Section on Peer to Peer Data Management

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  Karl Aberer:
  Guest editor's introduction. 21-22
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  Mayank Bawa, Brian F. Cooper, Arturo Crespo, Neil Daswani, Prasanna Ganesan, Hector Garcia-Molina, Sepandar D. Kamvar, Sergio Marti, Mario T. Schlosser, Qi Sun, Patrick Vinograd, Beverly Yang:
  Peer-to-peer research at Stanford. 23-28
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  Karl Aberer, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Anwitaman Datta, Zoran Despotovic, Manfred Hauswirth, Magdalena Punceva, Roman Schmidt:
  P-Grid: a self-organizing structured P2P system. 29-33
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  Joseph M. Hellerstein:
  Toward network data independence. 34-40
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  Wolfgang Nejdl, Wolf Siberski, Michael Sintek:
  Design issues and challenges for RDF- and schema-based peer-to-peer systems. 41-46
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  Igor Tatarinov, Zachary G. Ives, Jayant Madhavan, Alon Y. Halevy, Dan Suciu, Nilesh N. Dalvi, Xin Dong, Yana Kadiyska, Gerome Miklau, Peter Mork:
  The Piazza peer data management project. 47-52
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  Marcelo Arenas, Vasiliki Kantere, Anastasios Kementsietsidis, Iluju Kiringa, Renée J. Miller, John Mylopoulos:
  The hyperion project: from data integration to data coordination. 53-58
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  Beng Chin Ooi, Yanfeng Shu, Kian-Lee Tan:
  Relational data sharing in peer-based data management systems. 59-64
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  Aris M. Ouksel:
  In-context peer-to-peer information filtering on the Web. 65-70
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  Manolis Koubarakis, Christos Tryfonopoulos, Stratos Idreos, Yannis Drougas:
  Selective information dissemination in P2P networks: problems and solutions. 71-76
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  Evaggelia Pitoura, Serge Abiteboul, Dieter Pfoser, George Samaras, Michalis Vazirgiannis:
  DBGlobe: a service-oriented P2P system for global computing. 77-82

Distinguished Database Profiles

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  Marianne Winslett:
  Interview with Rakesh Agrawal. 83-90

Influential Papers

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  Kenneth A. Ross, Mitch Cherniack, Gottfried Vossen:
  Reminiscences on Influential Papers. 91

Standards

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  Susan Malaika, Andrew Eisenberg, Jim Melton:
  Standards for databases on the grid. 92-100

Book Reviews

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  Alexander A. Anisimov:
  Review of The data warehouse toolkit: the complete guide to dimensional modeling (2nd edition) by Ralph Kimball, Margy Ross. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2002. 101-102

Reports

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  Panos K. Chrysanthis, Morris Sloman, Arkady B. Zaslavsky:
  Report on the 4th International Conference on Mobile Data Management. 103-106
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  Björn Þór Jónsson:
  In Memory of Gísli R. Hjaltason. 107-112

Volume 32, Number 4, December 2003

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  Ling Liu:
  Editor's Notes. 2-3
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  C. J. Date:
  Edgar F. Codd: a tribute and personal memoir. 4-13
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  Richard T. Snodgrass:
  Developments at ACM TODS. 14-15

Sensor Network Technology and Sensor Data Management

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  Vijay Kumar:
  Sensor: the atomic computing particle. 16-21
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  Joseph M. Hellerstein, Wei Hong, Samuel Madden:
  The sensor spectrum: technology, trends, and requirements. 22-27
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  Murali Mani:
  Understanding the semantics of sensor data. 28-34
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  Philippe Bonnet, Allan Beaufour, Mads Bondo Dydensborg, Martin Leopold:
  Bluetooth-based sensor networks. 35-40
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  Reynold Cheng, Sunil Prabhakar:
  Managing uncertainty in sensor database. 41-46
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  Anastassia Ailamaki, Christos Faloutsos, Paul S. Fischbeck, Mitchell J. Small, Jeanne M. VanBriesen:
  An environmental sensor network to determine drinking water quality and security. 47-52
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  Alan J. Demers, Johannes Gehrke, Rajmohan Rajaraman, Agathoniki Trigoni, Yong Yao:
  The Cougar Project: a work-in-progress report. 53-59
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  Rajgopal Kannan, Ramaraju Kalidindi, S. Sitharama Iyengar, Vijay Kumar:
  Energy and rate based MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks. 60-65
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  Hüseyin Özgür Tan, Ibrahim Korpeoglu:
  Power efficient data gathering and aggregation in wireless sensor networks. 66-71
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  Mario Gerla, Kaixin Xu:
  Multimedia streaming in large-scale sensor networks with mobile swarms. 72-76
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  Themistoklis Palpanas, Dimitris Papadopoulos, Vana Kalogeraki, Dimitrios Gunopulos:
  Distributed deviation detection in sensor networks. 77-82

Database Principles

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  Diego Calvanese, Giuseppe De Giacomo, Maurizio Lenzerini, Moshe Y. Vardi:
  Reasoning on regular path queries. 83-92

Distinguished Database Profiles

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  Marianne Winslett:
  Interview with Pat Selinger. 93-103

Influential Papers

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  Kenneth A. Ross, Johannes Gehrke, Jun Rao:
  Reminiscences on Influential Papers. 104-105

Book Reviews

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  Karl Aberer:
  Book review column. 106
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  Qiang Wang, Brian D. Davison:
  Review of Web caching and replication by Michael Rabinovich and Oliver Spatscheck. Addison Wesley 2002. 107-108
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  Fernando Berzal Galiano, Nicolás Marín:
  Review of Data on the Web: from relational to semistructured data and XML by Serge Abiteboul, Peter Buneman, and Dan Suciu. Morgan Kaufmann 1999. 109-110
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  Nancy Wiegand:
  Review of Spatial databases with application to GIS by Philippe Rigaux, Michel Scholl, and Agnes Voisard. Morgan Kaufmann 2002. 111-112

Reports

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  Hans-Joachim Lenz, Panos Vassiliadis, Manfred A. Jeusfeld, Martin Staudt:
  Report on the 5^th international workshop on the design and management of data warehouses (DMDW'03). 113-116
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  Paolo Giorgini:
  Agent-Oriented software engineering report on the 4^th AOSE workshop (AOSE 2003). 117-119
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  Amihai Motro, Troels Andreasen:
  Report on FQAS 2002: fifth international conference on flexible query answering systems. 120-121
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  Subbarao Kambhampati, Craig A. Knoblock:
  Information integration on the Web: a view from AI and databases (report on IIWeb-03). 122-123
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  Jean-Luc Hainaut:
  Research in database engineering at the University of Namur. 124-128