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Editor's Notes.
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Michael J. Franklin
Vice Chair's Message.
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Z. Meral Özsoyoglu
Chair's Message.
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Richard T. Snodgrass
Reports
Towards Adaptive Workflow Systems, CSCW-98 Workshop Report.
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Abraham Bernstein
Chrysanthos Dellarocas
Mark Klein
Engineering Federated Information Systems: Report of EFIS '99 Workshop.
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Stefan Conrad
Wilhelm Hasselbring
Uwe Hohenstein
Ralf-Detlef Kutsche
Mark Roantree
Gunter Saake
Fèlix Saltor
Chorochronos: A Research Network for Spatiotemporal Database Systems.
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Andrew U. Frank
Stéphane Grumbach
Ralf Hartmut Güting
Christian S. Jensen
Manolis Koubarakis
Nikos A. Lorentzos
Yannis Manolopoulos
Enrico Nardelli
Barbara Pernici
Hans-Jörg Schek
Michel Scholl
Timos K. Sellis
Babis Theodoulidis
Peter Widmayer
Articles
Cost Estimation of User-Defined Methods in Object-Relational Database Systems.
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Jihad Boulos
Kinji Ono
First-Class Views: A Key to User-Centered Computing.
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Arnon Rosenthal
Edward Sciore
On Multi-Resolution Document Transmission in Mobile Web.
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Stanley M. T. Yau
Hong Va Leong
Dennis McLeod
Antonio Si
Influential Papers
Reminiscences on Influential Papers.
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Richard T. Snodgrass
Industry Perspectives
Distributed Transactions in Practice.
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Prabhu Ram
Lyman Do
Pamela Drew
Systems & Prototypes
A Distributed Scientific Data Archive Using the Web, XML and SQL/MED.
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Mark Papiani
Jasmin Wason
Alistair N. Dunlop
Denis Nicole
Research Surveys
An Overview and Classification of Mediated Query Systems.
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Ruxandra Domenig
Klaus R. Dittrich
Research Centers
Database Research at the University of Oklahoma.
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Le Gruenwald
Leonard Brown
Ravi A. Dirckze
Sylvain Guinepain
Carlos Sanchez
Brian Summers
Sirirut Vanichayobon