SIGMOD Record – web edition / September 1993

EDITOR’S NOTES

CHAIR’S MESSAGE

SIGMOD Goes On Line

CORRESPONDENCE:

Helping Computer Scientists in Romania

I. Athanasiu

ARTICLES:

On Temporal Modeling in the Context of Object Databases

N. Pissinou, K. Makki and Y. Yesha

Schema Evolution in OODBs Using Class Versioning

S. Monk and I. Sommerville

Merging Application-centric and Data-centric Approaches to Support
Transaction-oriented Multi-system Workflows

Y. Breibart, A. Deacon, H.-J. Schek, A. Sheth and G. Weikum

Database Compression

M. A. Roth and S. J. Van Horn

Deadlock Prevention in a Distributed Database System

P. K. Reddy and S. Bhalla

REPORTS:

Report of the Workshop on Semantic Heterogeneity and Interoperation in
Multidatabase Systems

P. Drew, R. King, D. McLeod, M. Rusinkiewicz and A. Silberschatz

NSF Workshop on Visual Information Management Systems

R. Jain

DATABASE RESEARCH SURVEYS:

Options in Physical Database Design

G. Graefe

DATABASE RESEARCH CENTERS:

Database Research at the University of Florida

Database Research at the University of Queensland

DATABASE RESEARCH FUNDING:

Timely Access to Future Funding Announcements

M. Winslett and I. S. Chu

ANNOUNCEMENTS and CALLS FOR PAPERS

Arie Segev / segev@csr.lbl.gov