Volume 27    Number 1    March 1998

(All articles are in postscript format.) Editor's Notes Chair's Message Information Director's Message (in html), also available in postscript. Reports Workshop Report on Experiences Using Object Data Management in the Real-World A. Chaudhri Report on the Second IEEE Metadata Conference (Metadata '97) R. Musick, C. Miller Invited Features Predator: A Resource for Database Research P. Seshadri Related URL: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/database/predator/index.html Materialized Views and Data Warehouses N. Roussopoulos Articles Applications of the JAVA programming language to database management B. Burton, V. Marek Unbundling Active Functionality S. Gatziu, A. Koschel, G. von Bultzingsloewen, H. Fritschi Mining Fuzzy Association Rules in Databases C. Kuok, A. Fu, M. Wong An Extensible Notation for Spatiotemporal Index Queries V. Tsotras, C. Jensen, R. Snodgrass Influential Papers Reminiscences on Influential Papers - R. Snodgrass ed. E. Bertino, M. Carey, J. Gray, H. Korth, B. Salzberg, D. Shasha Systems and Prototypes T2: A Customizable Parallel Database for Multi-Dimensional Data C. Chang, A. Acharya, A. Sussman, J. Saltz Workflow History Management P. Koksal, S. Arpinar, A. Dogac Industry Perspectives Towards a Richer Web Object Model F. Manola Where Will Object Techonology Drive Data Administration? A. Rosenthal Research Surveys Repositories and Object Oriented Databases P. Bernstein Towards On-Line Analytical Mining in Large Databases (gzipped), also available uncompressed J. Han Related URL: http://db.cs.sfu.ca/DBMiner/ Call for Papers Third IFCIS Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS'98) Related URL: http://www.kean.edu/~mhalper/coopis98.html Last update: June 26, 2000 Previous Issue: December 1997 Next Issue: June 1998 Send comments or suggestions to Alexandros Labrinidis.