Volume 25    Number 3    September 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 ARTICLES Domains, Relations and Religious Wars R. Camps Guidelines for Presentation and Comparison of Indexing Techniques J. Zobel, A. Moffat, K. Ramamohanarao Much Ado About Shared-Nothing M.G. Norman, T. Zurek, P. Thanisch On the Cost of Monitoring and Reorganization of Object Bases for Clustering C.A. Gerlhof, A. Kemper, G. Moerkotte Open Issues in Parallel Query Optimization W. Hasan, D. Florescu, P. Valduriez Control Strategies for Complex Relational Query Processing in Shared Nothing Systems L. Brunie, H. Kosch REPORTS The Active Database Management System Manifesto: A Rulebase of ADBMS Features ACT-NET Consortium Report on First International Workshop on Real-Time Database Systems A. Bestavros, K.-J. Lin, S. Son SYSTEMS AND PROTOTYPES The BeSS Object Storage Manager: Architecture Overview A. Biliris, E. Panagos RESEARCH CENTERS Middle East Technical University Software Research and Development Center A. Dogac INDUSTRY NEWS OLAP, Relational, and Multidimensional Database Systems G. Colliat UniSQL's Next-Generation Object-Relational Database Management System A. D'Andrea, P. Janus FUNDING NEWS Scientist's Called Upon to Take Actions X. Qian Marie-Anne Neimat / neimat@hpl.hp.com Last update: June 26, 2000 Previous Issue: June 1996 Next Issue: December 1996 Send comments or suggestions to Alexandros Labrinidis.