Volume 27    Number 3    September 1998

(Articles are in postscript format, except when noted otherwise.) Editor's Notes Chair's Message Reports WebDB '98: International Workshop on the Web and Databases P. Atzeni, A. Mendelzon Related URL: http://www.dia.uniroma3.it/webdb98/ KRDB '98: The 5th International Workshop on Knowledge Representation Meets Databases A. Borgida, V. Chaudhri, M. Staudt Related URL: http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-10/ Articles Enhanced Nearest Neighbour Search on the R-tree K. Cheung and A. Fu Algebraic Change Propagation for Semijoin and Outerjoin Queries T. Griffin, B. Kumar B-tree Page Size When Caching is Considered D. Lomet Influential Papers Reminiscences on Influential Papers - R. Snodgrass ed. H. Garcia-Molina, T. Imielinski, D. Maier, P. Selinger, J. Ullman Systems and Prototypes The TriGS Active Object-Oriented Database System - An Overview G. Kappel, W. Retschitzegger Industry Perspectives A Case for Intelligent Disks (IDISKs) (Also in PDF format) K. Keeton, D. Patterson, J. Hellerstein Standards Standards in Practice (in PDF format) A. Eisenberg and J. Melton Research Surveys Database Techniques for the World-Wide Web: A Survey D. Florescu, A. Levy, A. Mendelzon Research Centers Database Research at Columbia University S. Chang, L. Gravano, G. Kaiser, K. Ross, S. Stolfo The Microsoft Database Research Group D. Lomet, R. Barga, S. Chaudhuri, P. Larson Related URL: http://www.research.microsoft.com/research/db Call for Papers SIGMOD Record Special Section on Electronic Commerce (Also in HTML format) Asuman Dogac (asuman@srdc.metu.edu.tr) SIGMOD Record Special Section on Semantic Interoperability in Global Information Systems (Also in HTML format) Amit Sheth (amit@cs.uga.edu), Aris Ouksel (aris@uic.edu) VLDB'99 Conference Related URL: http://www.dcs.napier.ac.uk/~vldb99/ Last update: June 26, 2000 Previous Issue: June 1998 Next Issue: December 1998 Send comments or suggestions to Alexandros Labrinidis.