Guest Editor Introduction: Scientific and Statistical Database Management Larry Kerschberg Editorial Introduction Pages: 103 - 105
On Clustering Validation Techniques Maria HalkidiYannis BatistakisMichalis Vazirgiannis OriginalPaper Pages: 107 - 145
Clustering High Dimensional Massive Scientific Datasets Ekow J. OtooArie ShoshaniSeung-Won Hwang OriginalPaper Pages: 147 - 168
A Statistical Metadata Model for Simultaneous Manipulation of both Data and Metadata H. PapageorgiouFragkiskos PentarisMichalis Petrakos OriginalPaper Pages: 169 - 192
SP-GiST: An Extensible Database Index for Supporting Space Partitioning Trees Walid G. ArefIhab F. Ilyas OriginalPaper Pages: 215 - 240
BitCube: A Three-Dimensional Bitmap Indexing for XML Documents Jong P. YoonVijay RaghavanLarry Kerschberg OriginalPaper Pages: 241 - 254
Specifying OLAP Cubes on XML Data Mikael R. JensenThomas H. MøllerTorben Bach Pedersen OriginalPaper Pages: 255 - 280
Improving Federated Database Queries Using Declarative Rewrite Rules for Quantified Subqueries Graham J.L. KempPeter M.D. GrayAndreas R. Sjöstedt OriginalPaper Pages: 281 - 299
Mediator-Based Evolutionary Design and Development of Image Meta-Analysis Environments Jesper FredrikssonPer SvenssonTore Risch OriginalPaper Pages: 301 - 322