Letter From the Chair

Letter from the TC Chair

This paper presents an approach to the automated correction of constraint violations produced by transactions, in the context of active databases with integrity constraints. Constraints are expressed as formulas in a function-free first-order language; we then automatically generate production rules that detect constraint violations and propose repair actions. In this proposed architecture, tra...

Letter from the TCDE Chair

Paul Larson and Erich Neuhold are previous TCDE chairs and have served TCDE for many years revitalizing its activities. Their valuable experience will be greatly appreciated for promoting TCDE and for serving its members. David Lomet, a previous TCDE chair, has been Chief Editor of Data Engineering Bulletin since 1992. It is his leadership that has been at the heart of the success of IEEE Data ...

Letter from the Incoming TCDE Chair

TCDE, I would also like to thank Erich Neuhold for his leadership over the last four years. The activities of the TCDE are led by an Executive Committee whose members are selected by the chair. I am pleased to announce that the Executive Committee for 2007-2008 consists of Karl Aberer (Switzerland), Masaru Kitsuregawa (Japan), Per-Åke (Paul) Larson, chair, (USA), Sam Lightstone (Canada), David ...

Letter from the VLDB Proceedings Chair

Letter from the Outgoing TCDE Chair

over from Erich Neuhold in 2007. I have had the pleasure of working with an oustanding TCDE Executive Committee comprised of Calton Pu, Thomas Risse, Erich Neuhold, Guy Lohman, Karl Aberer, Masaru Kitsuregawa, David Lomet and Yannis Ioannides. TCDE has continued to sponsor several conferences and workshops related to data engineering. Our flagship conference, the International Conference on Dat...