Volume 25    Number 4    December 1996

Non-clickable items are available only in the hard-copy version of SIGMOD Record. All clickable items are in postscript or html format, except the abstracts which are in plain text. SIGMOD OFFICERS, COMMITTEES, AWARDS, AND INSTITUTIONAL SPONSORS EDITOR'S NOTES TECHNICAL CORRESPONDENCE AND NOTES A Response to R. Camps' Article ``Domains, Relations and Religous Wars'' C.J. Date In Reply to Domains, Relations and Religous Wars H. Darwen ARTICLES Data Problem: A System for their Definition and Management M. Rafanelli, A. Bezenchek, L. Tininini SPECIAL SECTION ON INFORMATION VISUALIZATION Guest Editor's Foreword T. Catarci, I.F. Cruz Dynamic Information Visualization Y. Ioannidis Incremental Data Structures and Algorithms for Dynamic Query Interfaces E. Tanin, R. Beigel, B. Shneiderman Spotfire: An Information Exploration Environment C. Ahlberg A Framework for Information Visualisation J.B. Kennedy, K.J. Mitchell, P.J. Barclay Pixel-Oriented Database Visualizations D.A. Keim To Table or Not to Table: a Hypertabular Answer G. Santucci, L. Tarantino Applying Database Visualization to the World Wide Web M.Z. Hasan, A.O. Mendelzon, D. Vista 3D Geographic Network Displays K.C. Cox, S.G. Eick, T. He REPORTS Report from the NSF Workshop on Workflow and Process Automation in Information Systems A. Sheth, D. Georgakopoulos, S.M.M. Joosten, M. Rusinkiewicz, W. Scacchi, J. Wileden, A. Wolf SYSTEMS AND PROTOTYPES An Orthogonally Persistent Java M.P. Atkinson, L. Daynes, M.J. Jordan, T. Printezis, S. Spence The Mariposa Distributed Database Management System J. Sidell STANDARDS ACTIVITIES New Standard for Stored Procedures in SQL A. Eisenberg INDUSTRY NEWS TPC-D -- The Challenges, Issues and Results R. Bhashyam FUNDING NEWS New Programs at DARPA and NSF X. Qian ANNOUNCEMENTS AND CALLS FOR PAPERS Seventh International Workshop on Foundations of Models and Languages for Data and Objects 16th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER'97) VLDB'97 Last update: June 26, 2000 Previous Issue: September 1996 Next Issue: March 1997 Send comments or suggestions to Alexandros Labrinidis.