SIGMOD Record, Volume 34

Volume 34, Number 1, March 2005

Invited Articles

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  Serge Abiteboul, Richard Hull, Victor Vianu, Sheila A. Greibach, Michael A. Harrison, Ellis Horowitz, Daniel J. Rosenkrantz, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Moshe Y. Vardi:
  In memory of Seymour Ginsburg 1928 - 2004. 5-12
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  David J. DeWitt, Michael J. Carey, Joseph M. Hellerstein:
  Stonebraker receives IEEE John von Neumann Medal. 13-15
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  Michael J. Franklin:
  Candidates for the upcoming ACM SIGMOD elections. 16-23

Research Articles and Surveys

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  Jianchun Fan, Subbarao Kambhampati:
  A snapshot of public web services. 24-32
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  Sylvain Guinepain, Le Gruenwald:
  Research issues in automatic database clustering. 33-38
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  Jin Li, David Maier, Kristin Tufte, Vassilis Papadimos, Peter A. Tucker:
  No pane, no gain: efficient evaluation of sliding-window aggregates over data streams. 39-44
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  Rong Xie, Ryosuke Shibasaki:
  A unified spatiotemporal schema for representing and querying moving features. 45-50

Research Centers

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  Arantza Illarramendi, Esperanza Marcos, Carmen Costilla:
  RedBD: the database research community in Spain. 51-56

Event Reports

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  Laurent Amsaleg, Björn Þór Jónsson, Vincent Oria:
  Report from the first international workshop on computer vision meets databases (CVDB 2004). 57-60
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  Sérgio Lifschitz, Alberto H. F. Laender:
  Report on the 19^th Brazilian symposium on databases (SBBD 2004). 61-62
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  Cliff B. Jones, David B. Lomet, Alexander B. Romanovsky, Gerhard Weikum, Alan D. Fekete, Marie-Claude Gaudel, Henry F. Korth, Rogério de Lemos, J. Eliot B. Moss, Ravi Rajwar, Krithi Ramamritham, Brian Randell, Luís E. T. Rodrigues:
  The atomic manifesto: a story in four quarks. 63-69
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  Sujata Banerjee, Mitch Cherniack, Panos K. Chrysanthis, Vijay Kumar, Alexandros Labrinidis:
  Report on MobiDE 2003: the 3rd international ACM Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access. 70-73

Influential Papers

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  Kenneth A. Ross, Rada Chirkova, Dimitrios Gunopulos, Rachel Pottinger, Jun Yang, Jingren Zhou:
  Reminiscences on influential papers. 74-76

Database Principles

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  Sara Cohen:
  Containment of aggregate queries. 77-85

Distinguished Database Profiles

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  Marianne Winslett:
  Databases in Virtual Organizations: a collective interview and call for researchers. 86-89

TODS Special Column

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  Richard T. Snodgrass:
  Developments at ACM TODS. 90

Volume 34, Number 2, June 2005

Invited Article

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  Michael J. Carey, Jiawei Han:
  A tribute to Professor Hongjun Lu. 5

Research Articles and Surveys

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  Georgia Koloniari, Evaggelia Pitoura:
  Peer-to-peer management of XML data: issues and research challenges. 6-17
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  Mohamed Medhat Gaber, Arkady B. Zaslavsky, Shonali Krishnaswamy:
  Mining data streams: a review. 18-26
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  Rajesh Bordawekar, Christian A. Lang:
  Analytical processing of XML documents: opportunities and challenges. 27-32
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  Ergin Elmacioglu, Dongwon Lee:
  On six degrees of separation in DBLP-DB and more. 33-40
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  Maarten Marx, Maarten de Rijke:
  Semantic characterizations of navigational XPath. 41-46
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  Vadim Tropashko:
  Nested intervals tree encoding in SQL. 47-52

Research Centers

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  Mourad Ouzzani, Walid G. Aref, Elisa Bertino, Ann Christine Catlin, Christopher W. Clifton, Wing-Kai Hon, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Arif Ghafoor, Susanne E. Hambrusch, Sunil Prabhakar, Jeffrey Scott Vitter, Xiang Zhang:
  The Indiana Center for Database Systems at Purdue University. 53-58

Event Reports

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  Juan Hernández Núñez, Ernesto Pimentel, José Ambrosio Toval Álvarez:
  Report on the ninth conference on Software Engineering and Databases (JISBD 2004). 59-61
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  Bart Kuijpers, Peter Z. Revesz:
  Report on the 1st International Symposium on the Applications of Constraint Databases (CDB'04). 62-64
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  Yannis Theodoridis, Panos Vassiliadis:
  Report on the International Workshop on Pattern Representation and Management (PaRMa'04). 65-67

Influential Papers

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  Kenneth A. Ross:
  Reminiscences on influential papers. 68-70

Distinguised Database Profiles

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  Marianne Winslett:
  Bruce Lindsay speaks out: on System R, benchmarking, life as an IBM fellow, the power of DBAs in the old days, why performance still matters, Heisenbugs, why he still writes code, singing pigs, and more. 71-79

Industry Perspectives

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  ZhaoHui Tang, Jamie Maclennan, Pyungchul (Peter) Kim:
  Building data mining solutions with OLE DB for DM and XML for analysis. 80-85

Database Principles

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  Richard Hull, Jianwen Su:
  Tools for composite web services: a short overview. 86-95

Volume 34, Number 3, September 2005

Scientific Workflows

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  Bertram Ludäscher, Carole A. Goble:
  Guest editors' introduction to the special section on scientific workflows. 3-4
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  Srinath Shankar, Ameet Kini, David J. DeWitt, Jeffrey F. Naughton:
  Integrating databases and workflow systems. 5-11
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  Timothy M. McPhillips, Shawn Bowers:
  An approach for pipelining nested collections in scientific workflows. 12-17
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  Claudia Bauzer Medeiros, José de Jesús Pérez Alcázar, Luciano A. Digiampietri, Gilberto Zonta Pastorello Jr., André Santanchè, Ricardo da Silva Torres, Edmundo Roberto Mauro Madeira, Evandro Bacarin:
  WOODSS and the Web: annotating and reusing scientific workflows. 18-23
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  Philip Maechling, Hans Chalupsky, Maureen Dougherty, Ewa Deelman, Yolanda Gil, Sridhar Gullapalli, Vipin Gupta, Carl Kesselman, Jihie Kim, Gaurang Mehta, Brian Mendenhall, Thomas A. Russ, Gurmeet Singh, Marc Spraragen, Garrick Staples, Karan Vahi:
  Simplifying construction of complex workflows for non-expert users of the Southern California Earthquake Center Community Modeling Environment. 24-30
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  Yogesh Simmhan, Beth Plale, Dennis Gannon:
  A survey of data provenance in e-science. 31-36
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  Yong Zhao, James E. Dobson, Ian T. Foster, Luc Moreau, Michael Wilde:
  A notation and system for expressing and executing cleanly typed workflows on messy scientific data. 37-43
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  Jia Yu, Rajkumar Buyya:
  A taxonomy of scientific workflow systems for grid computing. 44-49
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  Shannon Hastings, Matheus Ribeiro, Stephen Langella, Scott Oster, Ümit V. Çatalyürek, Tony Pan, Kun Huang, Renato Ferreira, Joel H. Saltz, Tahsin M. Kurç:
  XML database support for distributed execution of data-intensive scientific workflows. 50-55
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  Marek Wieczorek, Radu Prodan, Thomas Fahringer:
  Scheduling of scientific workflows in the ASKALON grid environment. 56-62

Regular Research Articles

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  Keshri Verma, Om Prakash Vyas:
  Efficient calendar based temporal association rule. 63-70
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  Veli Bicer, Gokce Laleci, Asuman Dogac, Yildiray Kabak:
  Artemis message exchange framework: semantic interoperability of exchanged messages in the healthcare domain. 71-76

Research Centers

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  Özgür Ulusoy:
  Database research at Bilkent University. 77-80
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  Nihan Kesim Cicekli, Ahmet Cosar, Asuman Dogac, Faruk Polat, Pinar Senkul, Ismail Hakki Toroslu, Adnan Yazici:
  Data management research at the Middle East Technical University. 81-84

Event Reports

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  Philippe Thiran, Tore Risch, Carmen Costilla, Jean Henrard, Thomas Kabisch, Johan Petrini, Willem-Jan van den Heuvel, Jean-Luc Hainaut:
  Report on the workshop on wrapper techniques for legacy data systems. 85-86
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  Leopoldo E. Bertossi, Jan Chomicki, Parke Godfrey, Phokion G. Kolaitis, Alex Thomo, Calisto Zuzarte:
  Exchange, integration, and consistency of data: report on the ARISE/NISR workshop. 87-90

Database Principles

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  Francesco Scarcello:
  Query answering exploiting structural properties. 91-99

Distinguised Database Profiles

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  Marianne Winslett:
  John Wilkes speaks out: on what the DB community needs to know about storage, how the DB and storage communities can join forces and change the world, and more. 100-110

Influential Papers

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  Kenneth A. Ross:
  Reminiscences on influential papers. 111-113

TODS Report

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  Richard T. Snodgrass:
  CMM and TODS. 114-117

Volume 34, Number 4, December 2005

Special articles

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  Renée J. Miller:
  In memoriam Alberto Oscar Mendelzon. 7-12
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  Mary F. Fernández:
  Tips on giving a good demo. 13-14

Regular Research Articles

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  Demet Aksoy:
  Information source selection for resource constrained environments. 15-20
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  Jan Hidders, Philippe Michiels, Jan Paredaens, Roel Vercammen:
  LiXQuery: a formal foundation for XQuery research. 21-26
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  Michael J. Franklin, Alon Y. Halevy, David Maier:
  From databases to dataspaces: a new abstraction for information management. 27-33
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  Jim Gray, David T. Liu, María A. Nieto-Santisteban, Alexander S. Szalay, David J. DeWitt, Gerd Heber:
  Scientific data management in the coming decade. 34-41
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  Michael Stonebraker, Ugur Çetintemel, Stanley B. Zdonik:
  The 8 requirements of real-time stream processing. 42-47
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  Erhard Rahm, Andreas Thor:
  Citation analysis of database publications. 48-53
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  Antonis Sidiropoulos, Yannis Manolopoulos:
  A citation-based system to assist prize awarding. 54-60
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  Philip A. Bernstein, Elisa Bertino, Andreas Heuer, Christian S. Jensen, Holger Meyer, M. Tamer Özsu, Richard T. Snodgrass, Kyu-Young Whang:
  An apples-to-apples comparison of two database journals. 61-64

Research centers

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  Alejandro P. Buchmann, Mariano Cilia:
  Data management research at Technische Universität Darmstadt. 65-70

Event reports

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  Sihem Amer-Yahia, Pat Case, Thomas Rölleke, Jayavel Shanmugasundaram, Gerhard Weikum:
  Report on the DB/IR panel at SIGMOD 2005. 71-74
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  Cyrus Shahabi, Ramesh Govindan, Karl Aberer:
  Report on the first IEEE international workshop on networking meets databases (NetDB'05). 75-77

Industry perspectives

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  Andrew Eisenberg, Jim Melton:
  XQuery 1.0 is nearing completion. 78-84

Distinguished database profiles (M. Winslett, editor)

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  Marianne Winslett:
  Christos Faloutsos speaks out: on power laws, fractals, the future of data mining, sabbaticals, and more. 85-89
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  Kenneth A. Ross:
  Reminiscences on influential papers. 90-91
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  Richard T. Snodgrass:
  Changes to the TODS editorial board. 92