Volume 38    Number 4    December 2009

Regular Research Articles | Surveys | Systems and Prototypes Event Reports | Calls for Participation ENTIRE ISSUE - 57 pages (in: PDF) SIGMOD Officers, Committees and Awardees (also in: PDF) Editor's Notes (in: PDF) Vice Chair's Message (in: PDF) Regular Research Articles Marc Van Cappellen, Zhen Hua Liu, Jim Melton, and Maxim Orgiyan XQJ - XQuery Java API is Completed Available in: PDF Surveys The Ubiquitous DBMS Kyu-Young Whang, Il-Yeol Song, Taek-Yoon Kim, and Ki-Hoon Lee Available in: PDF Relational Processing of RDF Queries: A Survey Sherif Sakr and Ghazi Al-Naymat Available in: PDF Systems and Prototypes Social Sites Research Through CourseRank Benjamin Bercovitz, Filip Kaliszan, Georgia Koutrika, Henry Liou, Aditya Parameswaran, Petros Venetis, Zahra Mohammadi Zadeh, and Hector Garcia-Molina Available in: PDF On Energy Management, Load Balancing and Replication Willis Lang, Jignesh M. Patel, and Jeffrey F. Naughton Available in: PDF Event Reports Third International Workshop on “Personalized Access, Profile Management, and Context Awareness in Databases” (PersDB 2009) Sihem Amer-Yahia and Georgia Koutrika Available in: PDF URL: http://persdb09.stanford.edu/ Second Workshop on Very Large Digital Libraries (VLDL 2009) Paolo Manghi, Pasquale Pagano, and Yannis Ioannidis Available in: PDF URL: http://www.delos.info/vldl2009/ Fifth International Workshop on Networking Meets Databases (NetDB 2009) Boon Thau Loo and Stefan Saroiu Available in: PDF URL: http://netdb09.cis.upenn.edu/ Calls for Participation First ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC) Available in: PDF URL: http://research.microsoft.com/socc2010 DBMe 2010: DataBase Mentoring Workshop at SIGMOD 2010 (June 11, 2010) Available in: PDF URL: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~rap/dbme/ DBTEST 2010: Third International Workshop on Testing Database Systems (June 7, 2010) Available in: PDF URL: http://www.cs.duke.edu/dbtest2010/ IDAR 2010: Ph.D. Workshop on Innovative Database Research (June 11, 2010) Available in: PDF URL: http://www2.dcc.ufmg.br/eventos/idar2010/ WANDS 2010: First International Workshop on Workflow Approaches to New Data-centric Science (June 6, 2010) Available in: PDF URL: http://wands2010.doc.ic.ac.uk/ WebDB 2010: 13th International Workshop on the Web and Databases (June 6, 2010) Available in: PDF URL: http://webdb2010.org/ Last update: September 2, 2010 Previous Issue: September 2009 Next Issue: March 2010 Please send comments or suggestions to Alexandros Labrinidis.