Volume 31, Number 1, March 2008

Testing and Tuning of Database Systems

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  David B. Lomet: Letter from the Editor-in-Chief. 1
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  Jayant R. Haritsa: Letter from the Special Issue Editor. 2
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  Biplob K. Debnath, Mohamed F. Mokbel, David J. Lilja: Exploiting the Impact of Database System Configuration Parameters: A Design of Experiments Approach. 3-10
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  Abhay Mehta, Chetan Gupta, Song Wang, Umeshwar Dayal: Automatic Workload Management for Enterprise Data Warehouses. 11-19
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  Stefan Krompass, Andreas Scholz, Martina-Cezara Albutiu, Harumi A. Kuno, Janet L. Wiener, Umeshwar Dayal, Alfons Kemper: Quality of Service-enabled Management of Database Workloads. 20-27
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  Carsten Binnig, Donald Kossmann, Eric Lo: Towards Automatic Test Database Generation. 28-35
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  Leo Giakoumakis, César A. Galindo-Legaria: Testing SQL Server's Query Optimizer: Challenges, Techniques and Experiences. 36-43
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  Ashok Joshi, Charles Lamb, Carol Sandstrom: Testing Berkeley DB. 44-50
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  Khaled Yagoub, Peter Belknap, Benoît Dageville, Karl Dias, Shantanu Joshi, Hailing Yu: Oracle's SQL Performance Analyzer. 51-58
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  Mechelle Gittens, Pramod Gupta, David Godwin, Hebert Pereyra, Jeff Riihimaki: Focused Iterative Testing: A Test Automation Case Study. 59-67

Volume 31, Number 2, June 2008

Recommendation and Search in Social Systems

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  David B. Lomet: Letter from the Editor-in-Chief. 1
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  Sihem Amer-Yahia: Letter from the Special Issue Editor. 2
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  Jeff J. Sandvig, Bamshad Mobasher, Robin D. Burke: A Survey of Collaborative Recommendation and the Robustness of Model-Based Algorithms. 3-13
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  Bhaskar Mehta, Thomas Hofmann: A Survey of Attack-Resistant Collaborative Filtering Algorithms. 14-22
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  Biswadeep Nag: Vibes: A Platform-Centric Approach to Building Recommender Systems. 23-31
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  Juha Leino, Kari-Jouko Räihä: User Experiences and Impressions of Recommenders in Complex Information Environments. 32-39
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  Ralf Schenkel, Tom Crecelius, Mouna Kacimi, Thomas Neumann, Josiane Xavier Parreira, Marc Spaniol, Gerhard Weikum: Social Wisdom for Search and Recommendation. 40-49
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  Marc A. Smith, Vladimir Barash: Social SQL: Tools for Exploring Social Databases. 50-57

Volume 31, Number 3, September 2008

Semantic Web Services: Composition and Analysis

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  David B. Lomet: Letter from the Editor-in-Chief. 1
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  Jianwen Su: Letter from the Special Issue Editor. 2
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  Michael Grüninger, Richard Hull, Sheila A. McIlraith: A Short Overview of FLOWS: A First-Order Logic Ontology for Web Services. 3-7
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  Amit P. Sheth, Karthik Gomadam, Ajith Ranabahu: Semantics enhanced Services: METEOR-S, SAWSDL and SA-REST. 8-12
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  Katia P. Sycara, Roman Vaculín: Process Mediation, Execution Monitoring and Recovery for Semantic Web Services. 13-17
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  Diego Calvanese, Giuseppe De Giacomo, Maurizio Lenzerini, Massimo Mecella, Fabio Patrizi: Automatic Service Composition and Synthesis: the Roman Model. 18-22
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  Annapaola Marconi, Marco Pistore, Paolo Traverso: Automated Composition of Web Services: the ASTRO Approach. 23-26
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  Tevfik Bultan, Xiang Fu: Choreography Modeling and Analysis with Collaboration Diagrams. 27-30
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  Oliver Kopp, Frank Leymann: Choreography Design Using WS-BPEL. 31-34
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  Alin Deutsch, Victor Vianu: WAVE: Automatic Verification of Data-Driven Web Services. 35-39
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  Marlon Dumas, Boualem Benatallah, Hamid R. Motahari Nezhad: Web Service Protocols: Compatibility and Adaptation. 40-44
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  Wil M. P. van der Aalst, H. M. W. (Eric) Verbeek: Process Mining in Web Services: The WebSphere Case. 45-48

Volume 31, Number 4, December 2008

XQuery Processing: Practice and Experience

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  David B. Lomet: Letter from the Editor-in-Chief. 1
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  Anastassia Ailamaki, Shivnath Babu, Pedro Furtado, Sam Lightstone, Guy M. Lohman, Patrick Martin, Vivek R. Narasayya, Glenn Pauley, Kenneth Salem, Kai-Uwe Sattler, Gerhard Weikum: Report: 3rd Int'l Workshop on Self-Managing Database Systems (SMDB 2008). 2-5
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  Michael J. Carey, Vassilis J. Tsotras: Letter from the Special Issue Editors. 6
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  Torsten Grust, Jan Rittinger, Jens Teubner: Pathfinder: XQuery Off the Relational Shelf. 7-14
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  Yuqing Wu, Stelios Paparizos, H. V. Jagadish: Querying XML in Timber. 15-24
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  Fatma Özcan, Normen Seemann, Ling Wang: XQuery Rewrite Optimization in IBM DB2 pureXML. 25-32
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  Zhen Hua Liu, Anguel Novoselsky, Vikas Arora: Towards a Unified Declarative and Imperative XQuery Processor. 33-40
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  Mary Holstege: Big, Fast XQuery: Enabling Content Applications. 41-48
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  Michael Blow, Vinayak R. Borkar, Michael J. Carey, Daniel Engovatov, Dmitry Lychagin, Panagiotis Reveliotis, Joshua Spiegel, Till Westmann: Experiences with XQuery Processing for Data and Service Federation. 49-56
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  Marc Van Cappellen, Wouter Cordewiner, Carlo Innocenti: Data Aggregation, Heterogeneous Data Sources and Streaming Processing: How Can XQuery Help? 57-64
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  Michael Kay: Ten Reasons Why Saxon XQuery is Fast. 65-74