ACM SIGMOD Conference 1998: Seattle, Washington
Laura M. Haas, Ashutosh Tiwary (Eds.): SIGMOD 1998, Proceedings ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, June 2-4, 1998, Seattle, Washington, USA. ACM Press 1998 ISBN 0-89791-995-5
Association Rules
Shalom Tsur, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Serge Abiteboul, Chris Clifton, Rajeev Motwani, Svetlozar Nestorov, Arnon Rosenthal: Query Flocks: A Generalization of Association-Rule Mining. 1-12
Raymond T. Ng, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan, Jiawei Han, Alex Pang: Exploratory Mining and Pruning Optimizations of Constrained Association Rules. 13-24
Takahiko Shintani, Masaru Kitsuregawa: Parallel Mining Algorithms for Generalized Association Rules with Classification Hierarchy. 25-36
Query Processing 1

Leonidas Fegaras: Query Unnesting in Object-Oriented Databases. 49-60
Mitch Cherniack, Stanley B. Zdonik: Changing the Rules: Transformations for Rule-Based Optimizers. 61-72
Mining
Sudipto Guha, Rajeev Rastogi, Kyuseok Shim: CURE: An Efficient Clustering Algorithm for Large Databases. 73-84
Roberto J. Bayardo Jr.: Efficiently Mining Long Patterns from Databases. 85-93
Rakesh Agrawal, Johannes Gehrke, Dimitrios Gunopulos, Prabhakar Raghavan: Automatic Subspace Clustering of High Dimensional Data for Data Mining Applications. 94-105
Query Processing 2
Navin Kabra, David J. DeWitt: Efficient Mid-Query Re-Optimization of Sub-Optimal Query Execution Plans. 106-117
Björn Þór Jónsson, Michael J. Franklin, Divesh Srivastava: Interaction of Query Evaluation and Buffer Management for Information Retrieval. 118-129
Tolga Urhan, Michael J. Franklin, Laurent Amsaleg: Cost Based Query Scrambling for Initial Delays. 130-141
Similarity Search
Stefan Berchtold, Christian Böhm, Hans-Peter Kriegel: The Pyramid-Technique: Towards Breaking the Curse of Dimensionality. 142-153
Kothuri Venkata Ravi Kanth, Divyakant Agrawal, Ambuj K. Singh: Dimensionality Reduction for Similarity Searching in Dynamic Databases. 166-176
Integrating Heterogeneous Data Sources
Sophie Cluet, Claude Delobel, Jérôme Siméon, Katarzyna Smaga: Your Mediators Need Data Conversion! 177-188
Renée J. Miller: Using Schematically Heterogeneous Structures. 189-200
William W. Cohen: Integration of Heterogeneous Databases Without Common Domains Using Queries Based on Textual Similarity. 201-212
Spatial and Similarity Query Processing
Stéphane Grumbach, Philippe Rigaux, Luc Segoufin: The DEDALE System for Complex Spatial Queries. 213-224
Gísli R. Hjaltason, Hanan Samet: Incremental Distance Join Algorithms for Spatial Databases. 237-248
OLAP
Yannis Kotidis, Nick Roussopoulos: An Alternative Storage Organization for ROLAP Aggregate Views Based on Cubetrees. 249-258
Prasad Deshpande, Karthikeyan Ramasamy, Amit Shukla, Jeffrey F. Naughton: Caching Multidimensional Queries Using Chunks. 259-270
Yihong Zhao, Prasad Deshpande, Jeffrey F. Naughton, Amit Shukla: Simultaneous Optimization and Evaluation of Multiple Dimensional Queries. 271-282
Semi-Structured Data
Brad Adelberg: NoDoSE - A Tool for Semi-Automatically Extracting Semi-Structured Data from Text Documents. 283-294
Svetlozar Nestorov, Serge Abiteboul, Rajeev Motwani: Extracting Schema from Semistructured Data. 295-306
Soumen Chakrabarti, Byron Dom, Piotr Indyk: Enhanced Hypertext Categorization Using Hyperlinks. 307-318
Techniques for Decision Support
Subbu N. Subramanian, Shivakumar Venkataraman: Cost-Based Optimization of Decision Support Queries Using Transient Views. 319-330
Phillip B. Gibbons, Yossi Matias: New Sampling-Based Summary Statistics for Improving Approximate Query Answers. 331-342
Sunita Sarawagi, Shiby Thomas, Rakesh Agrawal: Integrating Mining with Relational Database Systems: Alternatives and Implications. 343-354
Index Design
Functions
Michael Jaedicke, Bernhard Mitschang: On Parallel Processing of Aggregate and Scalar Functions in Object-Relational DBMS. 379-389
Michael W. Godfrey, Tobias Mayr, Praveen Seshadri, Thorsten von Eicken: Secure and Portable Database Extensibility. 390-401
Algebras for New Needs
Sibel Adali, Piero A. Bonatti, Maria Luisa Sapino, V. S. Subrahmanian: A Multi-Similarity Algebra. 402-413
Mary F. Fernández, Daniela Florescu, Jaewoo Kang, Alon Y. Levy, Dan Suciu: Catching the Boat with Strudel: Experiences with a Web-Site Management System. 414-425
DB Statistics
Gurmeet Singh Manku, Sridhar Rajagopalan, Bruce G. Lindsay: Approximate Medians and other Quantiles in One Pass and with Limited Memory. 426-435
Surajit Chaudhuri, Rajeev Motwani, Vivek R. Narasayya: Random Sampling for Histogram Construction: How much is enough? 436-447
Yossi Matias, Jeffrey Scott Vitter, Min Wang: Wavelet-Based Histograms for Selectivity Estimation. 448-459
Database Algorithms
David B. Lomet, Gerhard Weikum: Efficient and Transparent Application Recovery in Client-Server Information Systems. 460-471
Todd A. Anderson, Yuri Breitbart, Henry F. Korth, Avishai Wool: Replication, Consistency, and Practicality: Are These Mutually Exclusive? 484-495
Panel Sessions
Michael Stonebraker: Are We Working On the Right Problems? (Panel). 496
John Mylopoulos: Panel on Next Generation Database Systems Won't Work Without Semantics! 497
Tutorial Sessions

Alfons Kemper, Donald Kossmann, Florian Matthes: SAP R/3: A Database Application System (Tutorial). 499
Gray Clossman, Phil Shaw, Mark Hapner, Johannes Klein, Richard Pledereder, Brian Becker: Java and Relational Databases: SQLJ (Tutorial). 500
Stefan Berchtold, Daniel A. Keim: High-Dimensional Index Structures, Database Support for Next Decade's Applications (Tutorial). 501
Industrial Session: The Next Generation of Data Access

Seth J. White, R. G. G. Cattell, Sheldon J. Finkelstein: Enterprise Java Platform Data Access. 504-505
Industrial Session: Database Systems Management
Chris Eaton: Managing Large Systems with DB2 UDB. 508-509
C. Gregory Doherty: Database Systems Management and Oracle8. 510-511
Peter M. Spiro: Ubiquitous, Self-tuning, Scalable Servers. 512-515
Industrial Session: Information Dissemination
Michael J. Franklin, Stanley B. Zdonik: "Data In Your Face": Push Technology in Perspective. 516-519
Arvola Chan: Transactional Publish / Subscribe: The Proactive Multicast of Database Changes. 521
Industrial Session: Databases in Practice
KianSing Ng, Huan Liu, HweeBong Kwah: A Data Mining Application: Customes Retention at the Port of Singapore Authority (PSA). 522-525
Tirthankar Lahiri, Ashok Joshi, Amit Jasuja, Sumanta Chatterjee: 50,000 Users on an Oracle8 Universal Server Database. 528-530
Industrial Session: Document Systems
Kamar Aulakh: About Quark Digital Media System. 531-532
Daniel S. Whelan: FileNet Integrated Document Management Database Usage and Issues. 533
Industrial Session: Web Applications

James Chong: Real Business Processing Meets the Web. 536
Industrial Session: Web Site Management and Applications
Edwin R. Lassettre: Olympic Records for Data at the 1998 Nagano Games. 537
Eric A. Brewer: Delivering High Availability for Inktomi Search Engines. 538
Sherri Kennamer: Microsoft.com: A High-Scale Data Management and Transaction Processing Solution. 539-540
Demonstrations

Giansalvatore Mecca, Paolo Atzeni, Alessandro Masci, Paolo Merialdo, Giuseppe Sindoni: The Araneus Web-Base Management System. 544-546
Ling Liu, Calton Pu, Wei Tang, David Buttler, John Biggs, Tong Zhou, Paul Benninghoff, Wei Han, Fenghua Yu: CQ: A Personalized Update Monitoring Toolkit. 547-549
Chris Olston, Allison Woodruff, Alexander Aiken, Michael Chu, Vuk Ercegovac, Mark Lin, Mybrid Spalding, Michael Stonebraker: DataSplash. 550-552
Bartek Kiepuszewski, Ralf Mühlberger, Maria E. Orlowska: FlowBack: Providing Backward Recovery for Workflow Systems. 555-557
William W. Cohen: Providing Database-like Access to the Web Using Queries Based on Textual Similarity. 558-560
José Luis Ambite, Naveen Ashish, Greg Barish, Craig A. Knoblock, Steven Minton, Pragnesh Jay Modi, Ion Muslea, Andrew Philpot, Sheila Tejada: ARIADNE: A System for Constructing Mediators for Internet Sources. 561-563
Chen Li, Ramana Yerneni, Vasilis Vassalos, Hector Garcia-Molina, Yannis Papakonstantinou, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Murty Valiveti: Capability Based Mediation in TSIMMIS. 564-566
Ron Avnur, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Bruce Lo, Chris Olston, Bhaskaran Raman, Vijayshankar Raman, Tali Roth, Kirk Wylie: CONTROL: Continuous Output and Navigation Technology with Refinement On-Line. 567-569
Marcel Kornacker, Mehul A. Shah, Joseph M. Hellerstein: amdb: An Access Method Debugging Tool. 570-571
Zoé Lacroix, Arnaud Sahuguet, Raman Chandrasekar: User-oriented smart-cache for the Web: What You Seek is What You Get! 572-574
Peter Baumann, Andreas Dehmel, Paula Furtado, Roland Ritsch, Norbert Widmann: The Multidimensional Database System RasDaMan. 575-577
Jang Ho Park, Yong Sik Kwon, Ki Hong Kim, Sangho Lee, Byoung Dae Park, Sang Kyun Cha: Xmas: An Extensible Main-Memory Storage System for High-Performance Applications. 578-580
Osmar R. Zaïane, Jiawei Han, Ze-Nian Li, Sonny Han Seng Chee, Jenny Chiang: MultiMediaMiner: A System Prototype for Multimedia Data Mining. 581-583
Motomichi Toyama: SuperSQL: An Extended SQL for Database Publishing and Presentation. 584-586
Shaul Dar, Gadi Entin, Shai Geva, Eran Palmon: DTL's DataSpot: Database Exploration as Easy as Browsing the Web ... 590-592



