Volume 25    Number 1    March 1996

Non-clickable items are available only in the hard-copy version of SIGMOD Record. All clickable items are in postscript format. EDITOR'S NOTES SPECIAL SECTION ON ADVANCES IN REAL-TIME DATABASE SYSTEMS Advances in Real-Time Database Systems Research A. Bestavros Integrating Temporal, Real-Time, and Active Databases K. Ramamritham, R. Sivasankaran, J.A. Stankovic, D.T. Towsley, M. Xiong Real-Time Index Concurrency Control J.R. Haritsa, S. Seshadri Real-Time Database - Similarity Semantics and Resource Scheduling T.-W. Kuo, A.K. Mok Exploiting Main-Memory DBMS Features to Improve Real-Time Concurrency Control Protocols O. Ulusoy, A. Buchmann Enhancing External Consistency in Real-Time Transactions K.-J. Lin, C.-S. Peng Improving Timeliness in Real-Time Secure Database Systems S.H. Son, R. David, B. Thuraisingham Overview of the STanford Real-time Information Processor (STRIP) B. Adelberg, B. Kao, H. Garcia-Molina DeeDS Towards a Distributed and Active Real-Time Database Systems S.F. Andler, J. Hansson, J. Eriksson, J. Mellin, M. Berndtsson, B. Eftring ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHIES Temporal Database Bibliography Update V.J. Tsotras, A. Kumar REPORTS Database Research: Achievements and Opportunities into the 21st Century A. Silberschatz, M. Stonebraker, J. Ullman, editors Workshop Report: The First International Workshop on Active and Real-Time Database Systems (ARTDB-95) M. Berndtsson, J. Hansson RESEARCH SURVEYS Integrating Contents and Structure in Text Retrieval R. Baeza-Yates, G. Novarro SYSTEMS AND PROTOTYPES Lifestreams: A Storage Model for Personal Data E. Freeman, D. Gelernter STANDARDS ACTIVITIES Object Query Standards A.E. Wade RESEARCH CENTERS Database Research at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay D.B. Phatak, N.L. Sarda, S. Seshadri, S. Sudarshan Database Research at Arizona State University S.D. Urban, S.W. Dietrich, F. Golshani INDUSTRY NEWS Illustra's Web DataBlade Module J. Gaffney MQSeries and CICS Link for Lotus Notes FUNDING NEWS Shutdown, Budget, and Funding X. Qian ANNOUNCEMENTS AND CALLS FOR PAPERS PDIS '96 CIKM '96 Jennifer Widom / widom@db.stanford.edu Last update: June 26, 2000 Previous Issue: December 1995 Next Issue: June 1996 Send comments or suggestions to Alexandros Labrinidis.