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Volume Contents NUMBER 1 David Chenho Kung The Behavior Network Model for conceptual information modeling Motomichi Toyama Counter reduction technique for combined processing of selection and join Cc. Y.C hen, C. C. Chang and 37 Optimal MMI file systems for orthogonal range retrieval R. C. T. Lee Tzong-Chen Wu, Yi-Shiung Yeh Algebraic operations on encrypted relational databases and Chin-Chen Chang Sakti Pramanik, Multi-Directory Hashing Anastasia Analyti, Henry Davies and Hsiao-Yu Chou NUMBER 2 Tiziana Catarci, Fundamental Graphical Primitives for Visual Query Giuseppe Santucci Languages and Michele Angelaccio Jang-Jong Fan and Keh-Yih Su The effect of database filters on the performance of buffered relational database systems Brian Knight and Ma Jixin An extended temporal system based on points and intervals Kemal Koymen and Qujun Cai 121 SQL”*: a recursive SQL Frank Leymann 129 Refinement of enquiries in retrieval systems based on the universal relation model 141 Corrigendum NUMBER 3 Curtis E. Dyreson and 143. Timestamp semantics and representation Richard T. Snodgrass P. Goyal, T. S. Narayanan 167 Concurrency control for object bases and F. Sadri Yanchun Zhang and 181 Parallel processing for the full reduction of a chain query Maria E. Orlowska in distributed databases iii James K. Mullin Estimating the size of a relational join NUMBER 4 Erhard Rahm and Cache management for shared sequential data access Donald Ferguson William J. Weiland and A graphical query interface based on aggregation/ Ben Shneiderman generalization hierarchies Sakti P. Ghosh Statistical databases: design of experiment structures Michel Kuntz Introduction to GIUKU: Graphical Interactive Intelligent Utilities for Knowledgeable Users of data base systems Short Note Debajyoti Mukhopadhyay A generic retrieval system design supporting interoper- ability NUMBER 5 Carlos A. Heuser, Towards a complete conceptual model: Petri nets and Eduardo Meira Peres entity-relationship diagrams and Gernot Richter Murlidhar Koushik Dynamic hashing with distributed overflow space: a file organization with good insertion performance Edward Omiecinski An analytical comparison of two secondary index schemes: physical versus logical addresses Kien A. Hua, Chiang Lee Data partitioning for multicomputer database systems: a and Honesty C. Young cell-based approach Patrick E. O’Neil, Designing computer networks to avoid partitioning Kenneth Baclawski and D. Frank Hsu NUMBER 6 Do Heon Lee and Accommodating subjective vagueness through a fuzzy Myoung Ho Kim extension to the relational data model Sang H. Son and A token-based synchronization scheme for distributed Spiros Kouloumbis real-time databases Paolo Atzeni and A metamodel approach for the management of multiple Riccardo Torlione models and the translation of schemes iv Opher Etzion Flexible consistency modes for active databases applications Jaya P. Moily and A modularization approach for PROLOG knowledge Thomas J. Murray bases NUMBER 7 Pankaj Goyal, T. S. Narayanan Query processing in distributed databases with non- and Fereidoon Sadri disjoint data Pavel Zezula and Fausto Rabitti Object store with navigation accelerator Jan Van den Bussche and Using SQL with object-oriented databases Andreas Heuer A. H. M. ter Hofstede, Formal definition of a conceptual language for the H. A. Proper and description and manipulation of information models Th. P. van der Weide James E. Gary and Similar shape retrieval using a structural feature index Rajiv Mehrotra NUMBER 8 Hans-Jochen Schneider Editorial B. Dathan Transaction management in N-version programmed database systems Ozgiir Ulusoy and Real-time transaction scheduling in database systems Geneva G. Belford Carol Small A functional approach to database updates Eric A. Schweitz and Adaptive hashing with signatures Alan L. Tharp Shivraj Kanungo Information systems: theoretical development and research approaches Call for papers