8. SSDBM 1996: Stockholm, Sweden
Per Svensson, James C. French (Eds.): Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, Stockholm, Sweden, June 18-20, 1996. IEEE Computer Society 1996 ISBN 0-8186-7264-1
Invited Lecture
Heikki Mannila: Data Mining: Machine Learning, Statistics, and Databases. 2-9
Fundamental Issues in Statistical Database Management
Francesco M. Malvestuto, Marina Moscarini: Censoring Statistical Tables to Protect Sensitive Information: Easy and Hard Problems. 12-21
Antonia Bezenchek, Maurizio Rafanelli, Leonardo Tininini: A Data Structure for Representing Aggregate Data. 22-31
Current Problems in Scientific Databases
Clive G. Page: Astronomical Tables, 2-D Indexing, and Fuzzy-joins. 44-52
Nabil I. Hachem, Chenye Bao, Steve Taylor: Approximate Query Answering In Numerical Databases. 63-73
New Systems
Vaishnavi Anjur, Yannis E. Ioannidis, Miron Livny: Frog and Turtle: Visual Bridges Between Files and Object-Oriented Data. 76-85
Taekyong Lee, Tolga Bozkaya, Huang-Cheng Kuo, Gultekin Özsoyoglu, Z. Meral Özsoyoglu: A Scientific Multimedia Database System for Polymer Science Experiments. 86-95
Implementation Methods I
Kent E. Seamons, Ying Chen, Marianne Winslett, Yong Cho, Szu-Wen Kuo, Mahesh Subramaniam: Persistent Array Access Using Server-Directed I/O. 98-107
Doron Rotem, J. Leon Zhao: Extendible Arrays for Statistical Databases and OLAP Applications. 108-117
Chang Li, Xiaoyang Sean Wang: Optimizing Statistical Queries by Exploiting Orthogonality and Interval Properties of Grouping Relations. 118-127
Invited Lecture
Jozef Olenski: Practical Problems of Implementing Metadata Standards in Official Statistics. 130-148
Panel: Design Principles for Statistical Databases
Daniel W. Gillman, Martin V. Appel, William P. LaPlant Jr.: Design Principles for a Unified Statistical Data/Metadata System (Position Paper). 150-155
Peter Lewis: What Clinical Database Management System does the NHS need? (Position Paper). 162-166
Applications of Data and Process Modeling
Giuseppe De Giacomo, Paolo Naggar: Conceptual Data Model with Structured Objects for Statistical Database. 168-175
Graham J. L. Kemp, Joel Dupont, Peter M. D. Gray: Using the Functional Data Model to Integrate Distributed Biological Data Sources. 176-185
Greg A. Washburn, Lois M. L. Delcambre, Mark A. Whiting: Reuse of High-Level Information Requests: Leveraging the Investment. 186-195
Requirements and Design
Epaminondas Kapetanios: Extracting and Providing Knowledge within an Object-Centered Scientific Information System for Atmospheric Research. 198-207
Werner Dreyer, Duri Schmidt, Angelika Kotz Dittrich, Manuel Bleichenbacher: Requirements and Design for Replication Services for a Time Series Management System. 208-215
Panel: Managing Scale and Complexity in Scientific Databases
Rob Sargent, Dave Fuhrman, Terence Critchlow, Tony Di Sera, Robert Mecklenburg, Gary Lindstrom, Peter Cartwright: The Design and Implementation of a Database For Human Genome Research (Position Paper). 220-225
Larry Kerschberg, Hassan Gomaa, Daniel A. Menascé, Jong P. Yoon: Data and Information Architectures for Large-Scale Distributed Data Intensive Information Systems (Position Paper). 226-233
Arie Shoshani, Preston Holland, Janet Jacobsen, Debasis Mitra: Characterization of Temporal Sequences in Geophysical Databases (Position Paper). 234-239
Implementation Methods II
Esa Falkenroth: Computational Indexes for Time Series. 242-251



