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1998
Editor's Notes.
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Michael J. Franklin
Chair's Message.
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Richard T. Snodgrass
Reports
WebDB '98: International Workshop on the Web and Databases.
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Paolo Atzeni
Alberto O. Mendelzon
KRDB '98: The 5th International Workshop on Knowledge Representation Meets Databases.
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Alexander Borgida
Vinay K. Chaudhri
Martin Staudt
Articles
Enhanced Nearest Neighbour Search on the R-tree.
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King Lum Cheung
Ada Wai-Chee Fu
Algebraic Change Propagation for Semijoin and Outerjoin Queries.
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Timothy Griffin
Bharat Kumar
B-tree Page Size When Caching is Considered.
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David B. Lomet
Influential Papers
Reminiscences on Influential Papers.
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Richard T. Snodgrass
Hector Garcia-Molina
Tomasz Imielinski
David Maier
Patricia G. Selinger
Jeffrey D. Ullman
Systems and Prototypes
The TriGS Active Object-Oriented Database System - An Overview.
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Gerti Kappel
Werner Retschitzegger
Industry Perspectives
A Case for Intelligent Disks (IDISKs).
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Kimberly Keeton
David A. Patterson
Joseph M. Hellerstein
Standards
Standards in Practice.
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Andrew Eisenberg
Jim Melton
Research Surveys
Database Techniques for the World-Wide Web: A Survey.
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Daniela Florescu
Alon Y. Levy
Alberto O. Mendelzon
Research Centers
Database Research at Columbia University.
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Shih-Fu Chang
Luis Gravano
Gail E. Kaiser
Kenneth A. Ross
Salvatore J. Stolfo
The Microsoft Database Research Group.
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David B. Lomet
Roger S. Barga
Surajit Chaudhuri
Per-Åke Larson
Vivek R. Narasayya