Volume 17, Number 1, March 1994

Special Issue on TP Monitors and Distributed Transaction Management

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  David B. Lomet: Letter from the Editor-in-Chief. 1
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  Ron Obermarck: Letter from the Special Issue Editor. 2
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  Susan Malaika: A Tale of a Transaction Monitor. 3-9
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  Erich Newcomer: Pioneering Distributed Transaction Management. 10-15
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  Dieter Gawlick: High Performance TP Monitors - Do We Still Need to Develop Them? 16-21
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  C. Mohan, Dick Dievendorff: Recent Work on Distributed Commit Protocolls, and Recoverable Messaging and Queuing. 22-28
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  Gary A. Bundell, Gene E. Trivett: Real "Real Time Transactions". 29-33
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  Juan M. Andrade, Mark T. Carges, M. Randal MacBlane: The TUXEDO System: An Open On-line Transaction Processing Environment. 34-39
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  Hector Garcia-Molina, Kenneth Salem: Services for a Workflow Management System. 40-44
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  Patrick E. O'Neil, Mohsen Al-Ghosein, David Vaskevitch, Rick Vicik, Laura Yedwab: Transaction Processing at Microsoft: Present and Future. 45-50

Volume 17, Number 2, June 1994

Special Issue on Database Constraint Management

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  David B. Lomet: Letter from the Editor-in-Chief. 1
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  Jennifer Widom: Letter from the Special Issue Editor. 2-3
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  Stefano Ceri, Piero Fraternali, Stefano Paraboschi: Constraint Management in Chimera. 4-8
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  Paul W. P. J. Grefen, Rolf A. de By, Peter M. G. Apers: Integrity Control in Advanced Database Systems. 9-13
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  Raghu Ramakrishnan, Divesh Srivastava: Semantics and Optimization of Constraint Queries in Databases. 14-17
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  Gustavo Alonso, Amr El Abbadi: Integrating Constraint Management and Concurrency Control in Distributed Databases. 18-22
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  Sudarshan S. Chawathe, Hector Garcia-Molina, Jennifer Widom: Flexible Constraint Management for Autonomous Distributed Databases. 23-27
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  Subhasish Mazumdar, David W. Stemple: Helping the Database Designer Maintain Inegrity Constraints. 28-32
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  Jan Chomicki: Temporal Inegrity Constraints in Relational Databases. 33-37
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  Udo W. Lipeck, Michael Gertz, Gunter Saake: Transitional Monitoring of Dynamic Inegrity Constraints. 38-42
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  Timothy Griffin, Howard Trickey: Integrity Maintenance in A Telecommunications Switch. 43-46
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  Ashish Gupta, Sanjai Tiwari: Constraint Management On Distributed Design Databases. 47-51

Volume 17, Number 3, September 1994

Special Issue on Data Placement for Parallelism

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  David B. Lomet: Letter from the Editor-in-Chief. 1
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  Shahram Ghandeharizadeh: Letter from the Special Issue Editor. 2
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  Jaideep Srivastava, Thomas M. Niccum, Bhaskar Himatsingka: Data Declustering in PADMA: A PArallel Database MAnager. 3-13
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  Leana Golubchik, Richard R. Muntz: Fault Tolerance Issues in Data Declustering for Parallel Database Systems. 14-28
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  Peter Scheuermann, Gerhard Weikum, Peter Zabback: ``Disk Cooling'' in Parallel Disk Systems. 29-40
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  Anthony Tomasic, Hector Garcia-Molina: Issues in Parallel Information Retrieval. 41-49

Volume 17, Number 4, December 1994

Special Issue on Emerging Object Query Standards

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  David B. Lomet: Letter from the Editor-in-Chief. 1
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  J. Eliot B. Moss: Letter from the Special Issue Editor. 2
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  François Bancilhon, Guy Ferran: ODMG-93: The Object Database Standard. 3-14
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  Jim Melton: Object Technology and SQL: Adding Objects to a Relational Language. 15-26
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  Frank Manola, Gail Mitchell: A Comparison of Object Models in ODBMS-Related Standards. 27-35
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  David L. Wells, Craig W. Thompson: Evaluation of the Object Query Service Submissions to the Object Management Group. 36-45