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Volume Contents NUMBER 1 Ezio Lefons, Antonio Merico Analytical profile estimation in database systems and Filippo Tangorra Norbert Kiesel, Andy Schuerr 21 GRAS, a graph-oriented (software) engineering data- and Bernhard Westfechtel base system Santosh S. Venkatraman Formalization of an IS-A based extended nested relation and Arun Sen data model NUMBER 2 SCIENTIFIC DATABASES Yannis loannidis and 73 Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Scientific Databases Maria Zemankova Wesley W. Chu, KMeD: a Knowledge-based Multimedia Medical Dis- Alfonso F. Cardenas and tributed Database System Ricky K. Taira Amy J. Lee, An active OODB system for genome physical map Elke A. Rundensteiner assembly and Spencer Thomas Terence R. Smith, Jianwen Su, Computational modeling systems Amr El Abbadi, Divyakant Agrawal, Gustavo Alonso and Amitabh Saran L. T. Chen, R. Drach, Efficient organization and access of multi-dimensional M. Keating, S. Louis, datasets on tertiary storage systems D. Rotem and A. Shoshani NUMBER 3 Maria L. Barja, Design and implementation of ROCK & ROLL: a Alvaro A. A. Fernandes, deductive object-oriented database system Norman W. Paton, M. Howard Williams, Andrew Dinn and Alia |. Abdelmoty G. H. W. M. Bronts, A unifying object role modelling theory S. J. Brouwer, C. L. J. Martens and H. A. Proper Vassilis J. Tsotras The Snapshot Index: an |/O-optimal access method for and Nickolas Kangerlaris timeslice queries Heeseok Lee and Taeho Park Allocating data and workload among multiple servers in a local area network NUMBER 4 ADVANCED INFORMATION SYSTEMS ENGINEERING Sjaak Brinkkemper, 271 Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Advanced Information Anthony |. Wasserman Systems Engineering and Gerard Wijers Robert B. Jackson, Developing formal object-oriented requirements David W. Embiey specifications: a model, tool and technique and Scott N. Woodfield Paul Johannesson Representation and communication—a speech act based approach to information systems design Christiaan Thieme Guiding schema integration by behavioural information and Arno Siebes Reidar Conradi, Chunnian Liu Planning support for cooperating transactions in EPOS and Marianne Hagaseth Colette Rolland, An approach for defining ways-of-working Carine Souveyet and Mario Moreno Erratum NUMBER 5 Invited Project Review Divyakant Agrawal and Ordered sharing: a new lock primitive for database Amr El Abbadi systems I-Min A. Chen and An overview of the Object Protocol Model (OPM) and the Victor M. Markowitz OPM data management tools Jiawei Han and Evaluation of regular nonlinear recursions by deductive Laks V. S. Lakshmanan database techniques IV NUMBER 6 MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION SYSTEMS Stavros Christodoulakis and 443 Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Multimedia Information Anastasia Analyti Systems Dwight J. Makaroff and Schemes for implementing buffer sharing in continuous- Raymond T. Ng media systems Banu Ozden, Alexandros Biliris, A disk-based storage architecture for movie on demand Rajeev Rastogi and servers Avi Silberschatz Michael Vassilakopoulos and Dynamic Inverted Quadtree: a structure for Pictorial Yannis Manolopoulos Databases Luiz Fernando G. Soares, Nested composite nodes and version control in an open Noemi L. R. Rodriguez and hypermedia system M. A. Casanova Jean-Pierre Courtiat, The RT-LOTOS formal specification of the conditional Roberto C. de Oliveira and delivery mechanism Luiz F. Rust da Costa Carmo Call for papers NUMBER 7 Invited Project Review Elisa Bertino, Sushil Jajodia Database security: research and practice and Pierangela Samarati Athman Bouguettaya, On building a hyperdistributed database Mike Papazoglou and Roger King Eliseo Clementini, Composite regions in topological queries Paolino Di Felice and Gianluca Califano J. Vanthienen and G. Wets Integration of the decision table formalism with a relational database environment NUMBER 8 Matthias Jarke In Memoriam Jim Clifford and Dennis Shasha Alexander Tuzhilin On periodicity in temporal databases and James Clifford Ashish Gupta Using partial information to update materialized views and José A. Blakeley Wei Sun, Yibei Ling Supporting inheritance using subclass assertions and Clement Yu Jehn-Ruey Jiang The Column Protocol: a high availability and low message cost solution for managing replicated data Author Index Abdelmoty A. I., 185 loannidis Y., 73 Rotem D., 155 Agrawal D., 127, 361 Rundensteiner E. A., 97 Alonso G., 127 Jackson R. B., 273 Analyti A., 443 Jajodia S., 537 Samarati P., 537 Jarke M., 617 Saran A., 127 Barja M. L., 185 Jehn-Ruey Jiang, 687 Schuerr A., 21 Bertino E., 537 Johannesson P., 291 Sen A., 53 Biliris A., 465 Shoshani A., 155 Blakeley J. A., 641 Bouguettaya A., 557 Kangerlaris N., 237 Siebes A., 305 Brinkkemper S., 271 Keating M., 155 Silberschatz A., 465 Bronts G.H.W.M., 213 Kiessel N., 21 Smith T. R., 127 Brouwer S. J., 213 King R., 557 Soares L. F. G., 501 Souveyet C., 337 Califano G., 579 Lakshmanan L. V. S., 419 Su J., 127 Cardenas A. F., 75 Lee A. J., 97 Carmo L.F.R.C., 521 Lee H., 261 Taira R. K., 75 Casanova M. A., 501 Lefons E., 1 Tangorra F., 1 Chen I-M. A., 393 Louis S., 155 Thieme C., 305 Chen L. T., 155 Thomas S., 97 Christodoulakis S., 443 Makaroff D. J., 445 Tsotras V. J., 237 Chu W. W., 75 Manolopoulos Y., 483 Tuzhilin A., 619 Chunnian Liu, 317 Markowitz V. M., 393 Clementini E., 579 Martens C. L. J., 213 Clifford J., 619 Merico A., 1 Vanthienen J., 595 Conradi R., 317 Vassilakopoulos M., 483 Moreno M., 337 Courtiat J-P., 521 Venkatraman S. S., 53 Ng R. T., 445 Di Felice P., 579 Wasserman A. I., 271 Dinn A., 185 Wei Sun, 663 Drach R., 155 de Oliveira R. C., 521 Ozden B., 465 Westfechtel B., 21 Wets G., 595 El Abbadi A., 127, 361 Wijers G., 271 Embley D. E., 273 Papazoglou M., 557 Williams M. H., 185 Park T., 261 Woodfield S. N., 273 Fernandes A. A. A., 185 Paton N. W., 185 Proper H. A., 213 Yibei Ling, 663 Gupta A., 641 Rastogi R., 465 Yu C., 663 Hagaseth A., 317 Rodriguez N. L. R., 501 Han J., 419 Rolland C., 337 Zemankova M., 73 Printed & bound in Great Britain by BPC Wheatons Ltd, Exeter