Volume 26    Number 4    December 1997

(All articles are in postscript format.) EDITOR'S NOTES CHAIR'S MESSAGE SPECIAL SECTION ON MANAGEMENT OF SEMI-STRUCTURED DATA Foreword - Management of Semistructured Data D. Suciu Wrapper Generation for Semi-structured Internet Sources N. Ashish and C. Knoblock Semistructured and Structured Data in the Web: Going Back and Forth P. Atzeni, G. Mecca, P. Merialdo Integrating Dynamically-Fetched External Information into a DBMS for Semistructured Data J. McHugh and J. Widom Extracting Entity Profiles from Semistructured Information Spaces R. Nado and S. Huffman Inferring Structure in Semistructured Data S. Nestorov, S. Abiteboul, R. Motwani REPORTS Intelligent Access to Heterogeneous Information Sources - Report on the 4th KRDB Workshop F. Baader, M. Jeusfeld, W. Nutt Workshop on Workflow Management in Scientific and Engineering Applications R. RcClatchey, G. Vossen Research Issues in Federated Database Systems - Report on the EFDBS '97 Workshop S. Conrad, B. Eaglestone, W. Hasselbring, M. Roantree, F. Saltor, M. Schonhoff, M. Strassler, M. Vermeer SYSTEMS AND PROTOTYPES Virtual Database Technology A. Gupta, V. Harinarayan, A. Rajaraman INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVES Industry Perspectives L. Seligman The Five-Minute Rule Ten Years Later and Other Computer Storage Rules of Thumb J. Gray, G. Graefe RESEARCH CENTERS Information Systems Reseach at George Mason University S. Jajodia, D. Barbara, A. Brodsky, L. Kerschberg, A. Motro, E. Sibley, X. Wang Related URL: http://www.isse.gmu.edu/ The Database and Information System Research Group at the University of Ulm P. Dadam and W. Klas Related URL: http://www.informatik.uni-ulm.de/dbis/index_e.html CALLS FOR PAPERS Workshop on Foundations of Models and Languages for Data and Objects Related URL: http://www.in.tu-clausthal.de/~ripke/workshop98.html SIGMETRICS Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Tools Related URL: http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/SPDT98/ Last update: June 26, 2000 Previous Issue: September 1997 Next Issue: March 1998 Send comments or suggestions to Alexandros Labrinidis.