Volume 17 Number 6 of The VLDB Journal, a special issue on Metadata Management, 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: Editorial Guest editorial: Special issue on metadata management http://www.springerlink.com/content/7hn7439558420265 Author(s) Tiziana Catarci; Renée J. Miller Page 1345-1346 Special Issue Paper Model-independent schema translation http://www.springerlink.com/content/k6365674457654k4 Author(s) Paolo Atzeni; Paolo Cappellari; Riccardo Torlone; Philip A. Bernstein; Giorgio Gianforme Page 1347-1370 Special Issue Paper PicShark: mitigating metadata scarcity through large-scale P2P collaboration http://www.springerlink.com/content/16373m76t747842q Author(s) Philippe Cudré-Mauroux; Adriana Budura; Manfred Hauswirth; Karl Aberer Page 1371-1384 Special Issue Paper A layered framework supporting personal information integration and application design for the semantic desktop http://www.springerlink.com/content/w075053w31718864 Author(s) Isabel F. Cruz; Huiyong Xiao Page 1385-1406 Special Issue Paper System support for exploration and expert feedback in resolving conflicts during integration of metadata http://www.springerlink.com/content/e63571635m577344 Author(s) K. Selçuk Candan; Huiping Cao; Yan Qi; Maria Luisa Sapino Page 1407-1444 ***************************************************************************************** In addition the following Regular Papers are also included in this issue: Regular Paper ArchIS: an XML-based approach to transaction-time temporal database systems http://www.springerlink.com/content/q489710714132272 Author(s) Fusheng Wang; Carlo Zaniolo; Xin Zhou Page 1445-1463 Regular Paper Disseminating streaming data in a dynamic environment: an adaptive and cost-based approach http://www.springerlink.com/content/cwkw273866371437 Author(s) Yongluan Zhou; Beng Chin Ooi; Kian-Lee Tan Page 1465-1483 Regular Paper Structural optimization of a full-text n -gram index using relational normalization http://www.springerlink.com/content/w727210510146637 Author(s) Min-Soo Kim; Kyu-Young Whang; Jae-Gil Lee; Min-Jae Lee Page 1485-1507 Regular Paper On the space–time of optimal, approximate and streaming algorithms for synopsis construction problems http://www.springerlink.com/content/e5413426571902g8 Author(s) Sudipto Guha Page 1509-1535 ******************************************************************************************** Recently accepted papers for the VLDB Journal These papers will be soon available at http://springerlink.com/content/100392/ in the Online First Section Authenticated Indexing for Outsourced Spatial Databases Regular Paper Authors Yin Yang; Stavros Papadopoulos; Dimitris Papadias; George Kollios Accepted on 29-07-2008 A Self-Adaptable Query Allocation Framework for Distributed Information Systems Regular Paper Authors Jorge-Arnulfo Quiane-Ruiz; Philippe Lamarre; Patrick Valduriez Accepted on 05-08-2008 Instance Optimal Query Processing in Spatial Networks Regular Paper Authors Ke Deng; Xiaofang Zhou; Heng Tao Shen; Shazia Sadiq; Xue Li Accepted on 06-08-2008 Multi-Dimensional Top-k Dominating Queries Regular Paper Authors Man Lung Yiu; Nikos Mamoulis Accepted on 15-08-2008 CellJoin: A Parallel Stream Join Operator for the Cell Processor VLDB 2007 Best Paper Special Issue Authors Bugra Gedik; Rajesh Bordawekar; Philip S Yu Accepted on 28-08-2008 Adversarial-Knowledge Dimensions in Data Privacy VLDB 2007 Best Paper Special Issue Authors Bee-Chung Chen; Kristen LeFevre; Raghu Ramakrishnan Accepted on 02-10-2008 Data Integration with Uncertainty VLDB 2007 Best Paper Special Issue Authors Xin Dong; Alon Y Halevy; Cong Yu Accepted on 06-10-2008 The RUM-tree: Supporting Frequent Updates in R-trees Using Memos Regular Paper Authors Yasin N Silva; Xiaopeng Xiong; Walid G Aref Accepted on 13-10-2008 Equivalence of Queries that are Sensitive to Multiplicities Regular Paper Authors Sara Cohen Accepted on 27-10-2008 Efficient Processing of Probabilistic Reverse Nearest Neighbor Queries over Uncertain Data Regular Paper Authors Xiang Lian; Lei Chen Accepted on 28-10-2008 ******************************************************************************************** You can register for the Table of Contents-Alert of the VLDB-Journal at http://www.springer.com/778 --- Ralf Gerstner Senior Editor Computer Science Springer --- Tiergartenstrasse 17 | 69121 Heidelberg | Germany ralf.gerstner@springer.com www.springer.com