Bulletin of the Technical Committee on

Data Engineering

March 2000 ...... Vol. 23 No. 1 ……................................................................ IEEE Computer Society

Letters
Letter from the Editor-in-Chief ................................................................................................................David Lomet ___1
Letter from the TC Chair.........................................................................................................................Betty Salzberg___2
Letter from the Special Issue Editor ...............................................................................................Elke Rundensteiner___3

Special Issue on Database Technology in E-Commerce

Data Mining Techniques for Personalization.....................................................Charu C. Aggarwal and Philip S. Yue___4
Personal Views for Web Catalogs.............................................Kajal Claypool, Li Chen, and Elke A. Rundensteiner__10
An Interoperable Multimedia Catalog System for Electronic Commerce......................Tamer Özsu and Paul Iglinski__17
Database Design for Real-World E-Commerce Systems ..........................Il-Yeol Song and Kyu-Young Whang__23
End-to-end E-commerce Application Development Based on XML Tools.................................................................
....................................................................................Weidong Kou, David Lauzon, William O'Farrell, Teo Loo See, 
........................Daniel Wee, Daniel Tan, Kelvin Cheung, Richard Gregory, Kostas Kontogiannis, John Myopoulos__29
Declarative Specification of Electronic Commerce Applications................................................................................
....................................................................................................Serge Abiteboul, Sophie Cluet, and Laurent Mignet__37
TPC-W E-Commerce Benchmark Using Javlin/ObjectStore...................................................................Manish Gupta__43
An Overview of the Agent-Based Electronic Commerce System (ABECOS) Project ................................................
..................................................................................................................................Ee-Peng Lim and Wee-Keong Ng__49

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