Volume 17 Number 2 of The VLDB Journal, the special issue "Best of VLDB '06", 
is now available on the SpringerLink web site at http://springerlink.com/content/100392/
 
By clicking on the URLs below you can access the abstracts for each article. 
 	
In this issue:	

In memoriam Klaus R. Dittrich (1950–2007) <http://www.springerlink.com/content/q373605m0783u351>
Author(S)		Peter C. Lockemann 
Page		169 - 170
 
Guest Editors’ message	 <http://www.springerlink.com/content/805t13gv543226um>		
Author(s)  	Gustavo Alonso, David Lomet Umesh Dayal
Page	 	171 - 172	
  			
Special Issue Paper
Maintaining bounded-size sample synopses of evolving datasets <http://www.springerlink.com/content/3111lr6843m81447>
Author(s)	Rainer Gemulla, Wolfgang Lehner, Peter J. Haas
Page 		173 - 201

Special Issue Paper
XML schema refinement through redundancy detection and normalization <http://www.springerlink.com/content/e4007h8383n3p157>
Author(s)	Cong Yu, H. V. Jagadish
Page		203 - 223

    
Special Issue Paper
Trustworthy keyword search for compliance storage <http://www.springerlink.com/content/n00j1k43956w2245>
Author(s)	Soumyadeb Mitra, Marianne Winslett, Windsor W. Hsu, Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang
Page  		225 - 242
   
    
Special Issue Paper   
Databases with uncertainty and lineage <http://www.springerlink.com/content/rk005779772rm50v>
Author(s)	Omar Benjelloun,  Anish Das Sarma, Alon Halevy, Martin Theobald, Jennifer Widom
Page  		243 - 264

    
Special Issue Paper   
An adaptive RFID middleware for supporting metaphysical data independence <http://www.springerlink.com/content/73162x26p8481458>
Author(s)	Shawn R. Jeffery, Michael J. Franklin, Minos Garofalakis
Page  		265 - 289
    
Special Issue Paper   
The Juxtaposed approximate PageRank method for robust PageRank approximation in a peer-to-peer web search network <http://www.springerlink.com/content/v44q68456w7650p4>
Author(s)	Josiane Xavier Parreira, Carlos Castillo, Debora Donato, Sebastian Michel, Gerhard Weikum
Page  		291 - 313

    
Special Issue Paper
Delay aware querying with Seaweed <http://www.springerlink.com/content/jj71186512p07122>
Author(s)	Dushyanth Narayanan, Austin Donnelly, Richard Mortier, Antony Rowstron
Page  		315 - 331
  
    
Special Issue Paper
Implementing mapping composition <http://www.springerlink.com/content/7u1317533g637324>
Author(s)	Philip A. Bernstein, Todd J. Green, Sergey Melnik, Alan Nash
Page		333 - 353
  
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Recently accepted papers for the VLDB Journal

These papers will be soon available at <http://springerlink.com/content/100392/> in the Online First Section


Context-Based Literature Digital Collection Search 
Authors(s) 	Nattakarn Ratprasartporn, Jonathan Po, Ali Cakmak, Sulieman Bani-Ahmad, Gultekin Ozsoyoglu 
Regular Paper 
Accepted on 22-02-2008 

Sampling-Based Estimators for Subset-Based Queries 
Authors(s) 	Shantanu Joshi; Christopher Jermaine 
Regular Paper 
Accepted on 04-01-2008 

Containment of Partially Specified Tree-Pattern Queries in the Presence of Dimension Graphs 
Author(s) 	Dimitri Theodoratos, Pawel Placek, Theodore Dalamagas, Stefanos Souldatos, Timos Sellis 
Regular Paper 
Accepted on 04-01-2008 

Hierarchically Compressed Wavelet Synopses 
Author(s)	 Dimitris Sacharidis, Antonios Deligiannakis, Timos Sellis
Regular Paper 
Accepted on 23-01-2008 

Swoosh: a generic approach to entity resolution 
Author(s)	Omar Benjelloun, Hector Garcia-Molina, David Menestrina, Qi Su, Steven Euijong Whang, Jennifer Widom 
Regular Paper 
Accepted on 10-01-2008 


B-tries for Disk-based String Management 
Author(s) 	Nikolas Askitis, Justin Zobel 
Regular Paper 
Accepted on 09-01-2008 


Efficient storage and retrieval of probabilistic latent semantic information for information retrieval 
Author(s)	Laurence A Park, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao
Regular Paper 
Accepted on 02-01-2008 


Autonomic Query Parallelization using Non-dedicated Computers: An Evaluation of Adaptivity Options 
Authors(s) 	Norman Paton, Jorge Buenabad-Chavez, Mengsong Chen, Vijayshankar Raman, Garrert Swart, Inderpal Narang, Daniel Yellin, Alvaro Fernandes
Regular Paper 
Accepted on 17-12-2007 


Localized Monitoring of kNN Queries in Wireless Sensor Networks 
Author(s) 	Yuxia Yao, Xueyan Tang, Ee-Peng Lim 
Regular Paper 
Accepted on 11-12-2007 




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