Distributed and Parallel Databases, Volume 3

Volume 3, Number 1, January 1995

Title.
Gustavo Alonso, Amr El Abbadi:
Partitioned Data Objects in Distributed Databases. 5-35
Anil Kumar, Tony T. Lee, Vassilis J. Tsotras:
A Load-Balanced Parallel Sorting Algorithm for Shared-Nothing Architectures. 37-68
Xuemin Lin, Maria E. Orlowska:
An Efficient Processing of a Chain Join with the Minimum Communication Cost in Distributed Database Systems. 69-83
Wenwey Hseush, Gail E. Kaiser, Calton Pu, Kun-Lung Wu, Philip S. Yu:
Divergence Control for Distributed Database Systems. 85-109

Work Flow Management

Title.
Omran A. Bukhres, eva Kühn:
Guest Editors' Introduction. 117-118
Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Mark F. Hornick, Amit P. Sheth:
An Overview of Workflow Management: From Process Modeling to Workflow Automation Infrastructure. 119-153
Narayanan Krishnakumar, Amit P. Sheth:
Managing Hetergeneous Multi-system Tasks to Support Enterprise-Wide Operations. 155-186
Alexander Forst, eva Kühn, Omran A. Bukhres:
General Purpose Work Flow Languages. 187-218

Title.
Stefano Ceri, Maurice A. W. Houtsma, Arthur M. Keller, Pierangela Samarati:
Independent Updates and Incremental Agreement in Replicated Databases. 225-246
C. I. Ezeife, Ken Barker:
A Comprehensive Approach to Horizontal Class Fragmentation in a Distributed Object Based System. 247-272
Ee-Peng Lim, Jaideep Srivastava, San-Yih Hwang:
An Algebraic Transformation Framework for Multidatabase Queries. 273-307

Title.
Edin A. Muharemagic, Imadeldin O. Mahgoub, Milan Milenkovic:
Analysis of File Usage in Personal Computer Environments. 315-324
George Samaras, Kathryn Britton, Andrew Citron, C. Mohan:
Two-Phase Commit Optimizations in a Commercial Distributed Environment. 325-360
Nirad Sharma, Catherine A. Ewald:
Correctness Issues for Distributed Relational Database Design. 361-380