Distributed and Parallel Databases, Volume 7

Volume 7, Number 1, January 1999

Athman Bouguettaya:
Guest Editor's Introduction. 5-6
Aris M. Ouksel, Iqbal Ahmed:
Ontologies are not the Panacea in Data Integration: A Flexible Coordinator to Mediate Context Construction. 7-35
Li-min Liu, Michael Halper, James Geller, Yehoshua Perl:
Controlled Vocabularies in OODBs: Modeling Issues and Implementation. 37-65
Silvana Castano, Valeria De Antonellis:
A Discovery-Based Approach to Database Ontology Design. 67-98
Luc Bouganim, Daniela Florescu, Patrick Valduriez:
Load Balancing for Parallel Query Execution on NUMA Multiprocessors. 99-121

Asuman Dogac:
Guest Editor's Introduction. 131
Martin Bichler, Arie Segev:
A Brokerage Framework for Internet Commerce. 133-148
Susanne Boll, Andreas Grüner, Armin Haaf, Wolfgang Klas:
EMP - A Database-Driven Electronic Market Place for Business-to-Business Commerce on the Internet. 149-177
Jean-Marc Andreoli, François Pacull:
Distributed Print on Demand Systems in the Xpect Framework. 179-198
Ismailcem Budak Arpinar, Ugur Halici, Sena Nural Arpinar, Asuman Dogac:
Formalization of Workflows and Correctness Issues in the Presence of Concurrency. 199-248

Jin Jing, Anupam Joshi:
Guest Editorial. 255-256
Ouri Wolfson, A. Prasad Sistla, Sam Chamberlain, Yelena Yesha:
Updating and Querying Databases that Track Mobile Units. 257-387
Daniel Wu, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi:
Mobility and Extensibility in the StratOSphere Framework. 289-317
Adrian Friday, Nigel Davies, Jochen Seitz, Matt Storey, Stephen P. Wade:
Experiences of Using Generative Communications to Support Adaptive Mobile Applications. 319-342
Boris Y. L. Chan, Hong Va Leong, Antonio Si, Kam-Fai Wong:
MODEC: A Multi-Granularity Mobile Object-Oriented Database Caching Mechanism, Prototype and Performance. 343-372

M. Farrukh Khan, Raymond A. Paul, Ishfaq Ahmad, Arif Ghafoor:
Intensive Data Management in Parallel Systems: A Survey. 383-414
Akhil Kumar:
A New Algorithm for the Decentralized Aggregation Problem. 415-427
Ramzi R. Yehia, Imadeldin O. Mahgoub:
Storage System and Multimedia: Classification and Extensions. 429-442