Data
Engineering

December 1998

Vol. 21 No. 4

IEEE Computer Society

Letter from the Editor-in-Chief ..............................................................................................David Lomet ___1

Special Issue on Data Replication

Letter from the Special Issue Editor ............................................ Divyakant Agrawal and Amr El Abbadi___2
Quorum Systems in Replicated Databases: Science or Fiction? ............................................Avishai Wool___3
The Case for Non-transparent Replication: Examples from Bayou ............................................................
..........................................Douglas Terry, Karin Peteresn, Mike J. Spreitzer, and Marvin M. Theimer___12
Issues in Web Content Replication ...........................................................................Michael Rabinovich___21
Consensus-Based Management of Distributed and Replicated Data .................................Michel Raynal___30
Replication Strategies for High Availability and Disaster Recovery ..................................Robert Breton__38

Announcements and Notices
ICDE'2000 Data Engineering Conference....................................................................................................__44
1999 User Interfaces to Data Intensive Systems................................................................................back cover