Information Systems , Volume 13, 1988

Volume 13, Number 1

Giovanni Maria Sacco: The fact model: a semantic data model for complex databases. 1-11
Prabuddha De, June S. Park, Hasan Pirkul: An integrated model of record segmentation and access path selection for databases. 13-30
Timo Niemi: An approach and its specification to data reformatting in data conversion. 31-51
Maria Grazia Fugini, Giancarlo Martella: A Petri-net model of access control mechanisms. 53-63
Bernd Teufel, Stephanie Schmidt: Full text retrieval based on syntactic similarities. 65-70
Sakti Pramanik, Farshad Fotouhi: Optimizing the cost of relational queries using Partial-Relation schemes. 71-79
Peretz Shoval, Ehud Gudes, Moshe Goldstein: GISD: a graphical interactive system for conceptual database design. 81-95
Carla Schlatter Ellis: Concurrency in Extendible Hashing. 97-109
Yeong-Shiou Hsiao, Alan L. Tharp: Adaptive hashing. 111-127
Ross N. Williams: Dynamic-history predictive compression. 129-140

Theo Härder: Handling hot spot in DB-sharing systems. 155-166
Ewa Orlowska: Representation of vague information. 167-174
Timos K. Sellis: Intelligent caching and indexing techniques for relational database systems. 175-185
Prashant Palvia: The Effect of Buffer Size on Pages Accessed in Random Files. 187-191,
Peretz Shoval: ADISSA: architectural design of information systems based on structured analysis. 193-210
D. Murthy, Pradip K. Srimani: Split sequence coalesced hashing. 211-218
C. M. R. Leung, G. M. Nijssen: Relational database design using the NIAM conceptual schema. 219-227

Leonardo Felician: Confusional search on large files or databases. 239-244
Sonia Bergamaschi, Flavio Bonfatti, Lorenza Cavazza, Claudio Sartori, Paolo Tiberio: Relational data base design for the intensional aspects of a knowledge base. 245-256
Michael V. Mannino, Shamkant B. Navathe, Wolfgang Effelsberg: A rule-based approach for merging generalization hierarchies. 257-272
Philip W. Dart, Justin Zobel: Conceptual schemas applied to deductive databases. 273-287
Nikos A. Lorentzos, Roger G. Johnson: Extending relational algebra to manipulate temporal data. 289-296
Carlo Batini, Giuseppe Di Battista: A methodology for conceptual documentation and maintenance. 297-318
Leonardo Felician: A measure of costs in balanced trees. 319-320

Evan E. Anderson: Forming the optimal union of multiple databases. 327-333
Stefan Karl, Peter C. Lockemann: Design of engineering databases: a case for more varied semantic modelling concepts. 335-357
Sakti P. Ghosh: SIAM: statistics information access method. 359-368
Ilsoo Ahn, Richard T. Snodgrass: Partitioned storage for temporal databases. 369-391
Frank Wm. Tompa, José A. Blakeley: Maintaining materialized views without accessing base data. 393-406
Giuseppe Di Battista, Carlo Batini: Design of statistical databases: a methodology for the conceptual step. 407-422
Guang-Sheen Liu, Huei-Huang Chen: Parallel merging of lists in database management system. 423-428