SIGMOD Record, Volume 13

Volume 13, Number 1, September 1982

Thomas J. Cook:
Editor's Notes. 1
Michael Stonebraker:
Chairman's Column. 2-3&4
Survey of SIGMOD Membership. 5
Patricia G. Selinger:
Notes from the Vice Chairperson. 6-7
Call for Papers: PODS 1983, IR 1983, NNP 1983. 10-12
T. H. Merrett:
Comments on "Note on the Expected Size of a Join". 13
Robert M. Curtice:
Letter. 14-15
Bernd Walter:
Transaction-oriented Recovery Concepts for Distributed Data Base Systems (Abstract). 16-17
C. J. Date:
A Formal Definition of the relational Model. 18-29
Alain Pirotte:
A Precise Definition of Basic Relational Notions and of the Relational Algebra. 30-45
Paul De Bra, Jan Paredaens:
Horizontal Decompositions and their Impact on Query Solving. 46-50
Yves Vander Auwera, Luc Bernard:
New Proposal for a Common Command Language in Information Systems. 51-78
Jon D. Clark, Frederick G. Davis:
Notes on the State of Data Base Audit. 79-91
Neil C. Rowe:
On Some Arguable Claims in B. Shneiderman's Evaluation of Natural Language Interaction with Database Systems. 92-97
Ben Shneiderman:
Response to N. C. Rowe's Rewiew. 98

Michael Stonebraker:
Chairman's Column. 1-3
Thomas J. Cook:
Editor's Notes. 3
Patricia G. Selinger:
Notes from the Vice Chairperson. 4-5
Call for Papers: Database Week 1983, SSDBM 1983, Parallel Processing 1983, SIGPC/SIGSMALL 1983, ASIS 1982, NECC 1983, ICOD-2, PODS 1983. 6-18
Rakesh Agrawal, Michael J. Carey, David J. DeWitt:
Deadlock Detection is Cheap. 19-34
Jürgen Klonk:
Comments on Optimality of B-Trees. 35-38
T. H. Merrett:
Why Sort-Merge Gives the Best Implementation of the Natural Join. 39-51
Wolfgang Effelsberg:
Fixing Pages in Database Buffer. 52-59
Mukul K. Sinha:
Constraints: Consistency and Integrity. 60-63
Haim Kilov:
An Approach to the User Interface and Semantic Integrity for a Relational DBMS. 64-71
Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro:
The Optimal Selection of Secondary Indices is NP-Complete. 72-75

Michael Stonebraker:
Chairman's Column. 1-3
Patricia G. Selinger:
Notes from the Vice Chairperson. 4-5
Jonathan J. King:
CfP: SIGART Special Issue on AI and Databases. 6
ICOD-2 Program Summary. 7-8
David C. Wood:
Letter. 9-10
David S. Reiner, Arnon Rosenthal:
How the DBA Stole Christmas, or The Case for Separately Compiled Access Modules. 11-12
Patrick A. V. Hall:
Adding Database Management to Ada. 13-17
Winfried Lamersdorf:
Comparison of Four Relational Data Model Specifications. 18-31
Antonio L. Furtado:
An Informal Approach to Formal Specifications. 32-41
Michael L. Brodie:
Research Issues in Database Specification. 42-45
Roger M. Tagg:
Interfacing a Query Language to a CODASYL DBMS. 46-64
Ken Meyer, John Doughty:
The Devolution of Functional Analysis. 65-91

David J. DeWitt, Georges Gardarin (Eds.): SIGMOD'83, Proceedings of Annual Meeting, San Jose, California, May 23-26, 1983.
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