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Volume Contents NUMBER 1 Ho-Hyun Park, Yong-Ju Lee and Spatial query optimization utilizing early separated filter Chin-Wan Chung and refinement strategy Salvatore T. March and A Semantic Object-Oriented Data Access System Sangkyu Rho Wil M. P. van der Aalst and Verification of workflow task structures: a Petri-net-based Arthur H. M. ter Hofstede approach NUMBER 2 The 11th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE*99) Guest Editorial Matthias Jarke, Special issue on advanced information systems Andreas Oberweis and engineering Wolffried Stucky Peter Green and Integrated process modeling: an ontological evaluation Michael Rosemann Panos Vassiliadis, Towards quality-oriented data warehouse usage and Mokrane Bouzeghoub and evolution Christoph Quix Wasim Sadiq and Analyzing process models using graph reduction Maria E. Orlowska techniques Holm Wegner, Patrick Hupe and A process-oriented and content-based perspective on Florian Matthes software components Aiko Frank, Jurgen Sellentin and TOGA —a_ customizable service for data-centric Bernhard Mitschang collaboration NUMBER 3 Invited Project Review Tiziana Catarci What happened when database researchers met usability Alistair G. Sutcliffe Requirements analysis for socio-technical system design Il Heeseok Lee and Cheonsoo Yoo A form driven object-oriented reverse engineering methodology NUMBER 4 Kam-Yiu Lam, Tei-Wei Kuo, Concurrency control in mobile distributed real-time data- Wai-Hung Tsang and base systems Gary C. K. Law Georgia Garani and Joining nested relations and subrelations Roger Johnson Dong-Kweon Hong, Incorporating load factor into the scheduling of soft real- Sharma Chakravarthy and time transactions for main memory databases Theodore Johnson NUMBER 5 Vikram Pudi and Quantifying the utility of the past in mining large Jayant R. Haritsa databases Sudipto Guha, Rajeev Rastogi Rock: a robust clustering algorithm for categorical and Kyuseok Shim attributes Gianluca Moro, Antonio Natali Compositional algebra for interactive data access and Claudio Sartori NUMBER 6-7 Matthias Jarke and Vessage from the Editors-in-Chief Dennis Shasha Guest Column George Collier The war of the catalogs Altigran S. da Silva, On the rel: Alberto H. F. Laender and Structures Marco A. Casanova Johan Larson and David DeWitt Accessing out-of-tuple data: a performance study Kwok-Wa Lam, Sang H. Son, Scheduling transactions with stringent real-time Sheung-Lun Hung and constraints Zhiwei Wang Meral Binbasioglu and A system for supporting organizations in knowledge- Dimitris Karagiannis based document preparation IV NUMBER 8 The 3rd Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS 1999) Guest Editorial Johann Eder, Tatjana Welzer Special issue on ADBIS 1999 and Gottfried Vossen Jacek Ptodzien and Anna Kraken 467 Object query optimization through detecting independent subqueries Nicholas Tran and Rajiv Bagai Efficient representation and algebraic manipulation of nfinite relations in paraconsistent databases Can Turker and Gunter Saake Global extensional assertions and local integrity con- Straints in federated schemata Giorgio Terracina and A uniform methodology for extracting type conflicts and Domenico Ursino subscheme similarities from heterogeneous databases Enrico Nardelli and An efficient spatial access method for spatial images Guido Proietti ontaining multiple non-overlapping features ~S~tl iee