SIGMOD Record, Volume 12

Volume 12, Number 1, October 1981

• Michael Stonebraker:
  Chairman's Column. 1-3
  
• Patricia G. Selinger:
  Notes from the Vice Chairperson. 4-6
  
• Michael Stonebraker:
  In Memory of Kevin Whitney. 7
  
• Paul W. Abrahams:
  Election for SIGMOD Officers. 8-9
  
• John L. Berg:
  Proposals Sought for SIGMOD Regional Conferences or Workshops. 10
  
• ACM SIGMOD Conference 1981: Summary. 11-12
  
• Orrin E. Taulbee:
  Employment Register (Announcement). 13-14
  
• Call for Papers: Second Int. Conference on Databases: Improving Usability and Responsiveness (JCDKB 1982). 15
  
• Frederick H. Lochovsky:
  Book Review: Data Models, A Semantic Approach for Database Systems, by Sheldon A. Borkin. 16-17
  
• Kn. I. Kilov, I. A. Popova:
  Meta-Database Architecture for Relational DBMS. 18-25
  
• Antonio L. Furtado:
  Horizontal Decomposition to Improve a Non-BCNF Scheme. 26-32
  
• Catriel Beeri, Moshe Y. Vardi:
  A Note on Decompositions of Relational Databases. 33-37
  
• Peter B. Miller, Sergey Tetelbaum, Kincade N. Webb:
  BUSINESS - An End-User Oriented Application Development Language. 38-69
  
• Book Announcement: Data Models, by D. C. Tsichrittzis and F. H. Lochovsky. 70-71
  
• Martha W. Evens:
  Proceedings Announcement (ACL). 72-73
  

Volume 12, Number 2, January 1982

= DATA BASE 12(4)/13(1) Summer-Fall 1981

This joint issue of DATA BASE and SIGMOD Record is an edited report on the second Data Base Directions Workshop held at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, November 1-3, 1977.

• Roy Cottrell:
  From the SIGBDP Chairman. 2
  
• John L. Berg:
  Data Base Directions II: The Conversion Problem - Editorial. 3
  
• Mayford L. Roark:
  Evolution in Computer Systems. 4-8
  
• Richard L. Nolan:
  Establishing Management Objectives. 9-19
  
• James H. Burrows:
  Actual Conversion Experiences. 20-33
  
• Milt Bryce:
  Standards. 34-38
  
• James P. Fry:
  Conversion Technology, An Assessment. 39-61
  
• Blake Ives:
  Reviews. 62-64
  

Volume 12, Number 3, April 1982

• Thomas J. Cook:
  Editor's Notes. 1
  
• Michael Stonebraker:
  Chairman's Column. 2-4
  
• Patricia G. Selinger:
  Notes from the Vice Chairperson. 5
  
• Michael Stonebraker:
  Letter to Peter Denning (Two VLDB Conferences). 6-7
  
• David K. Hsiao:
  Will the Real VLDB Conference Please Stand Up? 8-14
  
• Peter J. Denning, Michael A. Harrison, Kathleen A. Wagner, Aaron Finerman, Daniel D. McCracken:
  Executive Committee Position on VLDB Conferences. 14a-14i
  
• System Development Foundation. 15
  
• Call for Papers: ICDCS 1982, SRDS 1982. 16-17
  
• Haim Kilov:
  Letter to the Editor. 18
  
• Haran Boral, David J. DeWitt, Randy H. Katz, Anthony C. Klug:
  Database Research Activities at the University of Wisconsin. 19-26
  
• A. Bolour, T. L. Anderson, L. J. Dekeyser, Harry K. T. Wong:
  The Role of Time in Information Processing: A Survey. 27-50
  
• Ricky Overmyer, Michael Stonebraker:
  Implementation of a Time Expert in a Data Base System. 51-60
  
• Gunter Schlageter:
  Problems of Optimistic Concurrency Control in Distributed Database Systems. 62-66
  
• Colette Rolland, Christian Richard:
  Distributed Processing of Data Dynamics. 67-85
  
• Henry MacKay Walker:
  Administering a Distributed Data Base Management System. 86-99
  

Volume 12, Number 4, July 1982

• Michael Stonebraker:
  Chairman's Column. a-c
  
• Thomas J. Cook:
  Editor's Notes. d
  
• Proposals Sought for SIGMOD Regional Conferences or Workshops. e
  
• Call for Papers: ISCA 1983. f
  
• Harry K. T. Wong:
  Report on the Workshop on Statistical Database Management. g-h
  
• Michael L. Brodie, Joachim W. Schmidt:
  Final Report of the ANSI/X3/SPARC DBS-SG Relational Database Task Group. i-62