Information Systems 1997: Vol 22 Table of Contents

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Information
SYSstems
Volume Contents and Author Index
Volume 21, 1996
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INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Incorporating DATABASE TECHNOLOGY
European Editor/Editorial Office U.S. Editor
Matthias Jarke Dennis Shasha
RWTH Aachen, Informatik V Department of Computer Science
Ahornstrasse 55, Aachen 52056, Germany Courant Institute of Mathematical Science
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Area Editors
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yaliles Computer Sciences Departmer Department of Computa
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University yf Wisconsin Manchester M60 1QD, U.K
Madison, WI 53706, U.S.A e-mail. p|\@sna.co.umist.ac uk
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ptimization, scientific databases €
visualization and database onceptual modelling
nterfaces
Atsushi Ohori
Zvi M. Kedem Research Institute for Mathematica
Department Sciences
New York University Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku
251 Mercer Street Kyoto 606-01, Japan
New York, NY 10012-1185, U.S.A e-mail: Ohori @ kurims.kyot )-U.ac.jp
Kedem @cs.nyu.edu Novel database programming languages
pproache nove and type systems for object oriented
databases
Klaus R. Dittrich :
titut fur Informat Maurizio Lenzerini Patrick O'Neil
; Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistematica Department of Computer Science
Universita’ degli Studi di Roma University of Massachusetts at Bostor
La Sapienza Boston, Mass., U.S.A
via Salaria 113, 00198 Roma, Italy e-mail. [email protected]
e-mail. lenzerini @ assi.dis.uniromal.it Benchmarks, physical database desigr
Data modelling, kn 2wiedge representation real-time considerations and techniques for
Amr El Abbadi and reasoning techniques very high performance databases
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Volume Contents
NUMBER |
REAL-TIME DATABASE SYSTEMS
Patrick O’Neil and Ozgur Ulusoy 1 Guest Editorial: Real-time database systems
Shiby Thomas, S. Seshadri Integrating standard transactions in firm real-time
and Jayant R. Haritsa database systems
Anindya Datta, Sarit Mukherjee, Multiclass transaction scheduling and _ overload
Prabhudev Konana, management in firm real-time database systems
igor R. Viguier
and Akhilesh Bajaj
Rohan F. M. Aranha, implementation of a real-time database system
Venkatesh Ganti,
Srinivasa Narayanan,
C. R. Muthukrishnan,
S. T. S. Prasad and
Krithi Ramamritham
Azer Bestavros 75 Value-cognizant speculative concurrency control for
and Spyridon Braoudakis real-time databases
Yu-Wei Chen and Le Gruenwald 103 Effects of deadline propagation on scheduling nested
transactions in distributed real-time database systems
NUMBER 2
ADVANCED INFORMATION SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
Juhani livari 125 Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Advanced Information
Systems Engineering
Antonina Dattolo 12 Collaborative version control in an agent-based
and Vincenzo Loia hypertext environment
H. Herbst Business rules in systems analysis: a meta-model and
repository system
Antoni Olive and Validating conceptual specifications through model
Maria-Ribera Sancho execution
Otto Rauh and Eberhard Stickel Standard transformations for the normalization of ER
schemata
Matti Rossi and Complexity metrics for systems development methods
Sjaak Brinkkemper and techniques
NUMBER 3
Renate Motschnig-Pitrik Requirements and comparison of view mechanisms for
object-oriented databases
Wan-Sup Cho, Chong-Mok Park, A new method for estimating the number of objects
Kyu-Young Whang satisfying an object-oriented query involving partial
1 Sang-Hyuk Son participation of classes
Eric N. Hanson Selection predicate indexing for active databases using
1! Theodore Johnson nterval Skip lists
Guoging Chen, Etienne E. Kerre Normalization based on fuzzy functional dependency in
| Jacques Vandenbulcke a fuzzy relational data model
NUMBER 4
Wvited Project Review
Christian S. Jensen Semantics of time-varying information
and Richard T. Snodgrass
Kamalakar Karlapalem, Optimal redesign policies to support dynamic process-
Shamkant B. Navathe ing of applications on a distributed relational database
and Mostafa Ammar system
Valery Soloviev An incremental memory allocation method for mixed
workloads
NUMBER 5
Bernhard Seeger An analysis of schedules for performing multi-page
requests
Alexander Thomasian A more realistic locking model and its analysis
Mengchi Liu ROL: a deductive object base language
NUMBER 6
Andrew Johnson Adaptive clustering of hypermedia documents
and Farshad Fotouhi
Duen-Ren Liu Partitioning similarity graphs: a _ framework for
ind Shashi Shekhar declustering problems
Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Hierarchies of indices for text searching
Eduardo F. Barbosa
and Nivio Ziviani
NATURE Team Defining visions in context: models, processes and tools
for requirements engineering
Corrigendum
NUMBER 7
Juhani livari Analyzing information systems development a
and Rudy Hirschheim comparison and analysis of eight IS development
approaches
Peter Triantafillou Availability and performance limitations in multi-
databases
N. Jukic and S. V. Vrbsky Feasibility of aggregates in time constrained queries
NUMBER 8
Levent V. Orman Queries = examples + counterexamples
Wilhelm Rodder Representation and extraction of information by
and Gabriele Kern-Isberner probabilistic logic
Stephen K. Kwan Analysis of tradeoff between data accuracy and perform-
and Doron Rotem ance of databases
Author Index
Ammar M.. 353 Jensen C. S., 311 Chong-Mok Park, 253
Aranha R. F. M., 55 Johnson A., 459 Prasad S$ I as s S
Johnson T., 269
Baeza-Yates R., 497 Jukic N., 595 Ramamritham K., 55
Rauh O., 187
Bajaj A., 29
Rossi M.., 209
Barbosa E. F., 497 Karlapalem K., 353 Rotem D., 653
Bestavros A., 75 Kern-Isberner G., 637 Rodder W.. 637
Braoudakis S., 75 Kerre E. E., 299
Brinkkemper S., 209 Konana P., 29 Sancho M.-R.. 167
Kwan S. K., 653 Seeger B., 387
Guoging Chen, 299 Seshadri S., 3
Yu-Wei Chen, 103 Le Gruenwald, 102 SSnhoedkghraars s S., R 475- 311
Wan-Sup Cho, 253 Duen-Ren Liu, 475
Soloviev V., 369
Mengchi Liu, 431 Sang-Hyuk Son, 253
Datta A., 2 Loia V., 127 Stickel E., 187
Dattolo A..
Motschnig-Pitrik R., 229 Thomas S., 3
Fotouhi | MMuukthheurkjreies hnSa.,n 29C Rm. 55 TTrhioamnatasfiialnlo u A.P,. , 405S9l o e hor]
Ganti \ Ulusoy O., |
Narayanan §., 55
NATURE Team, 515 Vandenbulcke J., 299
HHaarnistosan JI Navathe S. B., 35: Viguier I. R., 29
Vrbsky S. V., 595
Herbst H..
Hirschheim R.., Olive A.. 167
Kyu-Young Whang, 253
Orman L. V., 615
livari J O'Neil P.. | Ziviani N., 497
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