Information Systems, Volume 27, 2002

Volume 27, Number 1, March 2002

• Stéphane Lopes, Jean-Marc Petit, Farouk Toumani:
  Discovering interesting inclusion dependencies: application to logical database tuning. 1-19
  
• Geert Jan Bex, Sebastian Maneth, Frank Neven:
  A formal model for an expressive fragment of XSLT. 21-39
  
• K. K. Loo, Chi Lap Yip, Ben Kao, David Wai-Lok Cheung:
  A lattice-based approach for I/O efficient association rule mining. 41-74
  

Volume 27, Number 2, April 2002

• Michael Rosemann, Peter Green:
  Developing a meta model for the Bunge-Wand-Weber ontological constructs. 75-91
  
• Eleni Tousidou, Panayiotis Bozanis, Yannis Manolopoulos:
  Signature-based structures for objects with set-valued attributes. 93-121
  
• Kam-yiu Lam, Tei-Wei Kuo, Ben Kao, Tony S. H. Lee, Reynold Cheng:
  Evaluation of concurrency control strategies for mixed soft real-time database systems. 123-149
  

Volume 27, Number 3, May 2002

• Manos Theodorakis, Anastasia Analyti, Panos Constantopoulos, Nicolas Spyratos:
  A theory of contexts in information bases. 151-191
  
• Juliana Freire, Daniel F. Lieuwen, Joann J. Ordille:
  Integrating network devices in a meta-directory: the MetaComm experience. 193-217
  

Volume 27, Number 4, June 2002

• Xin Zhang, Elke A. Rundensteiner:
  Integrating the maintenance and synchronization of data warehouses using a cooperative framework. 219-243
  
• Mira Balaban, Peretz Shoval:
  MEERAn EER model enhanced with structure methods. 245-275
  
• Ming Xiong, Krithi Ramamritham, Jayant R. Haritsa, John A. Stankovic:
  MIRROR: a state-conscious concurrency control protocol for replicated real-time databases. 277-297
  

Volume 27, Number 5, July 2002

• Manolis Koubarakis, Dimitris Plexousakis:
  A formal framework for business process modelling and design. 299-319
  
• Filippo Furfaro, Sergio Greco, Sumit Ganguly, Carlo Zaniolo:
  Pushing extrema aggregates to optimize logic queries. 321-343
  
• Yen-Liang Chen, Shih-Sheng Chen, Ping-Yu Hsu:
  Mining hybrid sequential patterns and sequential rules. 345-362
  

Volume 27, Number 6, September 2002

• Klaus R. Dittrich, Andreas Geppert:
  Special issue on advanced information systems engineering. 363-364
  
• Jaelson Castro, Manuel Kolp, John Mylopoulos:
  Towards requirements-driven information systems engineering: the Tropos project. 365-389
  
• Antoni Olivé, Ernest Teniente:
  Derived types and taxonomic constraints in conceptual modeling. 391-409
  
• Luis Filipe Andrade, José Luiz Fiadeiro:
  Agility through coordination. 411-424
  
• Martin Glinz, Stefan Berner, Stefan Joos:
  Object-oriented modeling with A. 425-444
  
• Gerson Sunyé, Alain Le Guennec, Jean-Marc Jézéquel:
  Using UML Action Semantics for model execution and transformation. 445-457
  

Volume 27, Number 7, November 2002

• Barbara Oliboni, Letizia Tanca:
  A visual language should be easy to use: a step forward for XML-GL. 459-486
  
• Sônia Fernandes Silva, Tiziana Catarci, Ulrich Schiel:
  Formalizing visual interaction with historical databases. 487-521
  

Volume 27, Number 8, December 2002

• Zhexuan Song, Nick Roussopoulos:
  Using Hilbert curve in image storing and retrieving. 523-536
  
• Lei Zhu, Aibing Rao, Aidong Zhang:
  Advanced feature extraction for keyblock-based image retrieval. 537-557
  
• Wensheng Zhou, Son Dao, C. C. Jay Kuo:
  On-line knowledge- and rule-based video classification system for video indexing and dissemination. 559-586