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| 2 | -- | 0 | Michael J. Franklin. Editor s Notes |
| 3 | -- | 0 | Richard T. Snodgrass. Chair s Message |
| 4 | -- | 0 | Eric N. Hanson. Statement from the Treasurer |
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| 26 | -- | 31 | Ken Smith, Leo Obrst. Unpacking The Semantics of Source and Usage To Perform Semantic Reconciliation In Large-Scale Information Systems |
| 32 | -- | 39 | Arun Hampapur. Semantic Video Indexing: Approach and Issue |
| 40 | -- | 46 | Mike P. Papazoglou, Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers. Contextualizing the Information Space in Federated Digital Libraries |
| 47 | -- | 53 | Katia P. Sycara, Matthias Klusch, Seth Widoff, Jianguo Lu. Dynamic Service Matchmaking Among Agents in Open Information Environments |
| 54 | -- | 59 | Sonia Bergamaschi, Silvana Castano, Maurizio Vincini. Semantic Integration of Semistructured and Structured Data Sources |
| 60 | -- | 67 | Jerry Fowler, Brad Perry, Marian H. Nodine, Bruce Bargmeyer. Agent-Based Semantic Interoperability in InfoSleuth |
| 68 | -- | 75 | Avigdor Gal. Semantic Interoperability in Information Services: Experiencing with CoopWARE |
| 76 | -- | 77 | Mario A. Nascimento, Claudia Bauzer Medeiros. Report on the 13th Brazilian Symposium on Database Systems (SBBD 98) |
| 78 | -- | 83 | Márcio Farias de Souza, Marcus Costa Sampaio. Efficient Materialization and Use of Views in Data Warehouses |
| 84 | -- | 89 | Stefano Ceri, Piero Fraternali, Stefano Paraboschi. Design Principles for Data-Intensive Web Sites |
| 90 | -- | 96 | Joseph K. P. Kuan, Paul H. Lewis. A Study on Data Point Search for HG-Trees |
| 97 | -- | 103 | Mark Roantree, John Murphy, Wilhelm Hasselbring. The OASIS Multidatabase Prototype |
| 104 | -- | 109 | Amit P. Sheth, Clemens Bertram, Kshitij Shah. VideoAnywhere: A System for Searching and Managing Distributed Video Assets |
| 110 | -- | 114 | Richard T. Snodgrass, Serge Abiteboul, Sophie Cluet, Michael J. Franklin, Guy M. Lohman, David B. Lomet, Gultekin Özsoyoglu, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Kenneth A. Ross, Timos K. Sellis, Patrick Valduriez. Reminiscences on Influential Papers |
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| 131 | -- | 138 | Andrew Eisenberg, Jim Melton. SQL: 1999, formerly known as SQL 3 |