Volume 31    Number 2    June 2002

Articles | Distinguished Database Profiles | Influential Papers | Book Reviews Reports | Surveys | Systems and Prototypes | Standards | Database Principles SIGMOD Officers, Committees and Awards (also in: PDF) Editor's Notes (also in: Postscript and PDF) Chair's Message (in: gzipped Postscript and PDF) Articles Bringing Order to Query Optimization G. Slivinskas, C. Jensen, R. Snodgrass Available in: gzipped Postscript and PDF The Design of a Retrieval Technique for High-Dimensional Data on Tertiary Storage R. Orlandic, J. Lukaszuk, C. Swietlik Available in: gzipped Postscript and PDF A Pictorial Query Language for Querying Geographic Databases using Positional and OLAP Operators E. Pourabbas, M. Rafanelli Available in: gzipped Postscript and PDF Investigating XQuery for Querying Across Database Object Types N. Wiegand Available in: gzipped Postscript and PDF MPEG and Multimedia Database Systems H. Kosch Available in: gzipped Postscript and PDF Cluster Validity Methods: Part I M. Halkidi, Y. Batistakis, M. Vazirgiannis Available in: gzipped Postscript and PDF From Ternary Relationship to Relational Tables: A Case Against Common Beliefs R. Camps Pare Available in: gzipped Postscript and PDF Distinguished Database Profiles David DeWitt Speaks Out Marianne Winslett Available in: gzipped Postscript and PDF URL: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~dewitt Influential Papers Reminiscences on Influential Papers - Kenneth A. Ross ed. M. Fernandez, K. Shim Available in: gzipped Postscript and PDF Book Reviews Introduction Karl Aberer Available in: gzipped Postscript and PDF URL: http://www.acm.org/sigmod/record/bookreviews.html Data Mining: Concepts and Techniques - by J. Han, M. Kamber Reviewer: F. Berzal, N. Marin Available in: gzipped Postscript and PDF Mining the World Wide Web: An Information Search Approach - by G. Chang et al Reviewer: A. Ouksel Available in: gzipped Postscript and PDF Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence for E-Commerce - by A. Simon, S. Shaffer Reviewer: F. Goethals Available in: gzipped Postscript and PDF Reports Report on the NSF Workshop on Building an Infrastructure for Mobile and Wireless Systems Birgitta Konig-Ries, Kia Makki, Sam Makki, Charles Perkins, Niki Pissinou, Peter Reiher, Peter Scheuermann, Jari Veijalainen, Ouri Wolfson Available in: gzipped Postscript and PDF URL: http://it2.eng.fiu.edu/Workshop/Program/Program.html Report on the ACM Fourth International Workshop on Data Warehousing and OLAP (DOLAP 2001) J. Hammer Available in: gzipped Postscript and PDF URL: http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/dolap/dolap2001.html Surveys A Brief Survey of Web Data Extraction Tools A. Laender, B. Ribeiro-Neto, A. da Silva, J. Teixeira Available in: gzipped Postscript and PDF Systems and Prototypes Phoenix Project: Fault-Tolerant Applications R. Barga, D. Lomet Available in: gzipped Postscript and PDF URL: http://www.research.microsoft.com/db/phoenix/ Standards SQL/XML is Making Good Progress A. Eisenberg, J. Melton Available in: gzipped Postscript and PDF Database Principles Combining Fuzzy Information: an Overview R. Fagin Available in: gzipped Postscript and PDF Last update: August 30, 2002 Previous Issue: March 2002 Next Issue: September 2002 Send comments or suggestions to Alexandros Labrinidis.