Volume 31, Number 1, March 2002

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  Ling Liu: Editor's Notes. 2

Special Section on Data Management Issues in Electronic Commerce

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  Asuman Dogac: Guest Editor's Introduction. 3-4
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  Feng Tian, David J. DeWitt, Jianjun Chen, Chun Zhang: The Design and Performance Evaluation of Alternative XML Storage Strategies. 5-10
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  Ibrahim Cingil: Supporting Global User Profiles Through Trusted Authorities. 11-17
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  Rainer A. Sommer, Thomas R. Gulledge, David Bailey: The n-Tier Hub Technology. 18-23
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  Mariano Cilia, Alejandro P. Buchmann: An Active Functionality Service for E-Business Applications. 24-30
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  Wolfgang Hümmer, Wolfgang Lehner, Hartmut Wedekind: Contracting in the Days of eBusiness. 31-36
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  HyoungDo Kim: Conceptual Modeling and Specification Generation for B2B Business Process based on ebXML. 37-42
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  Zhan Cui, Dean M. Jones, Paul O'Brien: Semantic B2B Integration: Issues in Ontology-based Applications. 43-48
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  Christoph Quix, Mareike Schoop, Manfred A. Jeusfeld: Business Data Management for B2B Electronic Commerce. 49-54
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  Riza Cenk Erdur, Oguz Dikenelli: A Multi-Agent System Infrastructure for Software Component Market-Place: An Ontological Perspective. 55-60
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  Michael O. Ball, Meng Ma, Louiqa Raschid, Zhengying Zhao: Supply Chain Infrastructures: System Integration and Information Sharing. 61-66
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  Christoph Bussler: The Role of B2B Engines in B2B Integration Architectures. 67-72

Book Reviews

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  Karl Aberer: Book Review Column. 73
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  Alfons Kemper: Databases and Transaction Processing: An Application-Oriented Approach - Book Review. 74-75
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  James Geller: Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques - Book Review. 76-77
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  Paul W. P. J. Grefen: What Will Be - Book Review. 78-79

Distinguished Database Profiles

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  Marianne Winslett: Interview with Avi Silberschatz. 80-88

Database Principles

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  Dan Suciu: The XML Typechecking Problem. 89-96

Industry Perspectives

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  Michael Stonebraker: Too Much Middleware. 97-106

Influential Papers

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  Kenneth A. Ross, Flip Korn, Renée J. Miller, Kaladhar Voruganti: Reminiscences on Influential Papers. 107-108

Reports

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  Carole A. Goble, Brian J. Read: Report on the 18th British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD). 109-112
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  Albertas Caplinskas, Johann Eder, Olegas Vasilecas: Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS). 113-117

Career Forum

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  Richard T. Snodgrass: Why I Like Working in Academia. 118-121

Letter to Editor

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  Nazih Elderini: Letter to SIGMOD Record Editor. 122

Volume 31, Number 2, June 2002

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  Ling Liu: Editor's Notes. 2
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  M. Tamer Özsu: Chair's Message. 3-4

Articles

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  Giedrius Slivinskas, Christian S. Jensen, Richard T. Snodgrass: Bringing Order to Query Optimization. 5-14
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  Ratko Orlandic, Jack Lukaszuk, Craig Swietlik: The Design of a Retrieval Technique for High-Dimensional Data on Tertiary Storage. 15-21
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  Elaheh Pourabbas, Maurizio Rafanelli: A Pictorial Query Language for Querying Geographic Databases using Positional and OLAP Operators. 22-27
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  Nancy Wiegand: Investigating XQuery for Querying Across Database Object Types. 28-33
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  Harald Kosch: MPEG-7 and Multimedia Database Systems. 34-39
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  Maria Halkidi, Yannis Batistakis, Michalis Vazirgiannis: Cluster Validity Methods: Part I. 40-45
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  Rafael Camps: From Ternary Relationship to Relational Tables: A Case Against Common Beliefs. 46-49

Distinguished Database Profiles

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  Marianne Winslett: David DeWitt Speaks Out. 50-62

Influential Papers

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  Kenneth A. Ross, Mary F. Fernandez, Kyuseok Shim: Reminiscences on Influential Papers. 63-64

Book Reviews

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  Karl Aberer: Book Review Column. 65
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  Fernando Berzal Galiano, Nicolás Marín: Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques - Book Review. 66-68
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  Aris M. Ouksel: Mining the World Wide Web: An Information Search Approach - Book Review. 69-70
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  Frank G. Goethals: Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence for E-Commerce - Book Review. 71-72

Reports

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  Birgitta König-Ries, Kia Makki, S. A. M. Makki, Charles E. Perkins, Niki Pissinou, Peter L. Reiher, Peter Scheuermann, Jari Veijalainen, Ouri Wolfson: Report on the NSF Workshop on Building an Infrastructure for Mobile and Wireless Systems. 73-79
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  Joachim Hammer: Report on the ACM Fourth International Workshop on Data Warehousing and OLAP (DOLAP 2001). 80-83

Surveys

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  Alberto H. F. Laender, Berthier A. Ribeiro-Neto, Altigran Soares da Silva, Juliana S. Teixeira: A Brief Survey of Web Data Extraction Tools. 84-93

Systems and Prototypes

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  Roger S. Barga, David B. Lomet: Phoenix Project: Fault-Tolerant Applications. 94-100

Standards

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  Andrew Eisenberg, Jim Melton: SQL/XML is Making Good Progress. 101-108

Database Principles

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  Ronald Fagin: Combining Fuzzy Information: an Overview. 109-118

Volume 31, Number 3, September 2002

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  Ling Liu: Editor's Notes. 2
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  M. Tamer Özsu: Chair's Message. 3-4
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  Joachim Hammer: Treasurer's Message. 5
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  Richard T. Snodgrass: TODS Perceptions and Misconceptions. 6-8

Articles

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  Yong Yao, Johannes Gehrke: The Cougar Approach to In-Network Query Processing in Sensor Networks. 9-18
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  Maria Halkidi, Yannis Batistakis, Michalis Vazirgiannis: Clustering Validity Checking Methods: Part II. 19-27
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  Shi-Ming Huang, Irene S. Y. Kwan, Chih-He Li: A Study on the Management of Semantic Transaction for Efficient Data Retrieval. 28-33

Book Reviews

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  Karl Aberer: Book Review Column. 34
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  Bart Kuijpers: Introduction to Constraint Databases - Book Review. 35-36
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  Gerhard Weikum: Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing - Book Review. 37-38

Database Principles

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  Frank Neven: Automata Theory for XML Researchers. 39-46

Distinguished Database Profiles

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  Marianne Winslett: Hector Garcia-Molina Speaks Out. 47-54

Industry Perspectives

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  Sam Lightstone, Guy M. Lohman, Daniel C. Zilio: Toward Autonomic Computing with DB2 Universal Database. 55-61

Influential Papers

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  Kenneth A. Ross, Amr El Abbadi, Theodore Johnson, Richard T. Snodgrass: Reminiscences on Influential Papers. 62-63

Reports

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  Martin R. Frank, Natalya Fridman Noy, Steffen Staab: Report on the Semantic Web Workshop at WWW 2002. 64-67
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  Aya Soffer, Yoëlle S. Maarek, Bay-Wei Chang: Report on the Mobile Search Workshop at WWW 2002. 68-71
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  Mark Levene, Alexandra Poulovassilis: Report on the Web Dynamics Workshop at WWW 2002. 72-76
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  Fabio Crestani, Mark Girolami: Report on the 24th European Colloquium on Information Retrieval Research. 77-80

Standards

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  Jim Melton, Jan-Eike Michels, Vanja Josifovski, Krishna G. Kulkarni, Peter M. Schwarz: SQL/MED - A Status Report. 81-89

Career Forum

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  Qiong Luo, Zachary G. Ives: Interviewing During a Tight Job Market. 90-96

Research Centers

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  Marianne Winslett, Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, AnHai Doan, Jiawei Han, ChengXiang Zhai, Yuanyuan Zhou: Database Research at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 97-102
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  Isabel F. Cruz, Ashfaq A. Khokhar, Bing Liu, A. Prasad Sistla, Ouri Wolfson, Clement T. Yu: Research Activities in Database Management and Information Retrieval at the University of Illinois at Chicago. 103-108

Volume 31, Number 4, December 2002

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  Ling Liu: Editor's Notes. 2
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  M. Tamer Özsu: Chair's Message. 3-4
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  Richard T. Snodgrass: Rights of TODS Readers, Authors and Reviewers. 5-9

Special Section on Semantic Web and Data Management

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  Robert Meersman, Amit P. Sheth: Guest Editor's Introduction. 10-11
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  Peter Spyns, Robert Meersman, Mustafa Jarrar: Data Modelling versus Ontology Engineering. 12-17
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  York Sure, Steffen Staab, Rudi Studer: Methodology for Development and Employment of Ontology Based Knowledge Management Applications. 18-23
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  Christoph Bussler, Dieter Fensel, Alexander Maedche: A Conceptual Architecture for Semantic Web Enabled Web Services. 24-29
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  Timothy W. Finin, Anupam Joshi: Agents, Turst, and Information Access on the Semantic Web. 30-35
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  E. Michael Maximilien, Munindar P. Singh: Conceptual Model of Web Service Reputation. 36-41
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  Kemafor Anyanwu, Amit P. Sheth: The p Operator: Discovering and Ranking Associations on the Semantic Web. 42-47
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  Karl Aberer, Philippe Cudré-Mauroux, Manfred Hauswirth: A Framework for Semantic Gossiping. 48-53
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  William I. Grosky, D. V. Sreenath, Farshad Fotouhi: Emergent Semantics and the Multimedia Semantic Web. 54-58
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  David Buttler, Matthew Coleman, Terence Critchlow, Renato Fileto, Wei Han, Ling Liu, Calton Pu, Daniel Rocco, Li Xiong: Querying Multiple Bioinformatics Data Sources: Can Semantic Web Research Help? 59-64
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  Carole A. Goble, David De Roure: The Grid: An Application of the Semantic Web. 65-70

Book Reviews

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  Karl Aberer: Book Review Column. 71
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  Antonio Badia: Ontologies: A Silver Bullet for Knowledge Management and Electronic Commerce - Book Review. 72-73
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  Jie Wu: Small Worlds: the Dynamics of Networks between Order and Randomness - Book Review. 74-75

Distinguished Database Profiles

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  Marianne Winslett: Interview with David Maier. 76-85

Database Principles

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  Martin Grohe: Parameterized Complexity for the Database Theorist. 86-96

Influential Papers

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  Kenneth A. Ross, Alfred V. Aho, Anastassia Ailamaki: Reminiscences on Influential Papers. 97

Reports

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  Amit P. Sheth, Robert Meersman: Amicalola Report: Database and Information System Research Challenges and Opportunities in Semantic Web and Enterprises. 98-106
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  Omar Boucelma, Silvana Castano, Carole A. Goble, Vanja Josifovski, Zoé Lacroix, Bertram Ludäscher: Report on the EDBT'02 Panel on Scientific Data Integration. 107-112

Standards

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  Jim Melton, Andrew Eisenberg: An Early Look at XQuery. 113-120

Research Centers

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  Mark Roantree, Alan F. Smeaton: Research in Information Managment at Dublin City University. 121-126