Volume 26    Number 3    September 1997

All clickable items are in postscript format. SIGMOD OFFICERS, COMMITTEES, AND AWARDS EDITOR'S NOTES CHAIR'S MESSAGE REPORTS Database Systems --- Breaking Out of the Box A. Silberschatz, S. Zdonik Report on DART '96 K. Ramamritham, N. Soparkar ARTICLES A Query Language for a Web-Site Management System M. Fernandez, D. Florescu, A. Levy, D. Suciu Quasi-Cubes: Exploiting Approximations in Multidimensional Databases D. Barbara, M. Sullivan OGDI: Toward Interoperability Among Geospatial Databases G. Clement, C. Larouche, D. Gouin, P. Morin, H. Kucera An Extended Entity-Relationship Model for Geographic Applications T. Hadzilacos, N. Tryfona Asserting Beliefs in MLS Relational Models N. A. Jukic, S. V. Vrbsky SYSTEMS AND PROTOTYPES Lore: A Database Management System for Semistructured Data J. McHugh, S. Abiteboul, R. Goldman, D. Quass, J. Widom RESEARCH CENTERS Research in Databases and Data-Intensive Applications--Computer Science Dept. and FZI, University of Karlsruhe B. Konig-Ries, P. C. Lockemann ANNOUNCEMENTS AND CALLS FOR PAPERS SIGMOD98 PODS98 ER97 Last update: June 26, 2000 Previous Issue: June 1997 Next Issue: December 1997 Send comments or suggestions to Alexandros Labrinidis.