Editor-in-Chief: Ahmed K. Elmagarmid Department of Computer Science Purdue University ake@cs.purdue.edu
Editorial Board:
Divyakant Agrawal, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Rafael Alonso, Matsushita Information Tech. Lab., USA Peter Apers, University of Twente, The Netherlands Elisa Bertino, University of Milan, Italy Athman Bouguettaya, Virginia Tech, USA Y. Breitbart, University of Kentucky, USA Alex Buchmann, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany Stefano Ceri, Milano Polytechnic, Italy Stavros Christodoulakis, Technical University of Crete, Greece Flaviu Cristian, University of California, San Diego, USA Umeshwar Dayal, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories,
USA
Klaus R. Dittrich, University of Zurich, Switzerland Asuman Dogac, Middle East Technical University, Turkey Weimin Du, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, USA Michael J. Franklin, University of Maryland, USA Hector Garcia-Molina, Stanford University, USA Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, GTE Laboratories, Inc., USA Arif Ghafoor, Purdue University, USA Jane Grimson, Trinity College, Ireland Abdelsalam (Sumi) Helal, University of Florida,
USA
Hosagrahar V. Jagadish, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Leonid Kalinichenko, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia Yahiko Kambayashi, Kyoto University, Japan M. Kersten, CWI, The Netherlands Per-Ake Larson, University of Waterloo, Canada Ming T. Liu, Ohio State University, USA
Guy M. Lohman, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA David Lomet, Microsoft Corporation, USA Frank Manola, Object Services and Consulting, Inc., USA Jai Menon, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA C. Mohan, IBM Almaden Research Center, USA A. Desai Narasimhalu, National University of Singapore, Singapore Shamkant Navathe, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Aris M. Ouksel, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA M. Tamer Özsu, University of Waterloo Calton Pu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Raghu Ramakrishnan, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Andreas Reuter, International University in Germany Marek Rusinkiewicz, University of Houston, USA Ron Sacks-Davis, RMIT & The University of Melbourne, Australia Nandlal Sarda, Indian Institute of Technology, Powai, India Amit Sheth, Bellcore, USA Avi Silberschatz, University of Texas at Austin, USA Jon Solworth, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA Venkatramana Subrahmanian, University of Maryland, USA Patrick Valduriez, INRIA, France Ioannis Vlahavas, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Gerhard Weikum, University of Saarland, Germany Jennifer Widom, Stanford University, USA Antoni Wolski, Solid Applied Research Center, Finland Kam-Fai Wong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Clement Yu, University of Illinois, USA Stanley B. Zdonik Jr., Brown University, USA Aidong Zhang, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA