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Volume 28 Number 1 March 1999 |
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As with the previous issue of the Record, this issue starts with a
special section, this time, on Semantic Interoperability in Global
Information Systems. The section has been edited by Aris M. Ouksel of
the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Amit Sheth of the
University of Georgia (and also of the SIGMOD Record editorial board,
of course!). Aris and Amit have selected 9 papers from among 35
proposals they received in response to the Call for Papers they posted
for the section. These nine papers span a number of fundamental
technologies for achieving interoperability and describe approaches
being taken for specific application domains. I thank Aris and Amit
for their efforts in putting together this special section.
In keeping with this theme, as part of our on-going efforts to improve
the global interoperability of SIGMOD, this issue contains a report
from the Brazilian Symposium on Database Systems and a reprint of the
paper chosen as "Best Paper" by the program committee. The inclusion
of the report and paper was suggested by Mario Nascimento and
represents a new experiment for SIGMOD Record. We would like to
consider publishing recognized papers from other high-quality regional
conferences as a way to increase the participation of SIGMOD members
from around the world. Thanks to Mario for conceiving this idea and to
the authors for allowing us to reprint their award-winning paper. I
encourage organizers of other such conferences to contact me about
inclusion of their best papers in the SIGMOD Record.
Of course, we again have excellent "must read" articles in our
Industry Perspectives and Standards columns, as well as an assortment
of very interesting contributed articles and Systems and Prototypes
papers. Thanks as usual to the editors and authors.
| Michael Franklin
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