Bulletin of the Technical Committee on

Data Engineering

December 2003 ... Vol. 26 No. 4 ……………………………………………… IEEE Computer Society

Letters
Letter from the Editor-in-Chief ............................................................................................................... David Lomet ___1
TC on Data Engineering: Election of Chair for 2004-2005 ...................................................................... Paul Larson ___1
Position Statement and Biography ........................................................................................................ Erich Neuhold ___2
ELECTION BALLOT .................................................................................................. TC ON DATA ENGINEERING ___3
Letter from the Special Issue Editor ..............................................Umeshwar Dayal, Harumi Kuno, Kevin Wilkinson___4

Special Issue on Making the Semantic Web Real A Database Perspective on the Semantic Web: A Brief Commentary ......................................................Frank Manola__5
The ICS-FORTH Semantic Web Integration Middleware (SWIM)} .......................................................................
..............Vassilis Christophides, Gregory Karvounarakis, Aimilia Magkanaraki, Dimitris Plexousakis, Val Tannen__11
Information Integration and the Semantic Web ............................................Laks V. S. Lakshmanan, Fereidoon Sadri__19
Knowledge Provenance Infrastructure ....................Paulo Pinheiro da Silva, Deborah L. McGuinness, Rob McCool__26
Supporting Scalable, Persistent Semantic Web Applications ...................................................................................
.............................................................Kevin Wilkinson, Craig Sayers, Harumi Kuno, Dave Reynolds, Luping Ding__33
Semantic (Web) Technology In Action: Ontology Driven Information Systems for Search, Integration and Analysis
.................................................................................................................................Amit Sheth, Cartic Ramakrishnan__40
Putting the Semantic Web to Work with DB Technology ......................Nathalie Moreno, Ismael Navas, J.F. Aldana__49
Functional Modeling of Engineering Designs for the Semantic Web ...................Joseph B. Kopena, William C. Regli__55
The Role of Semantic Web Technology in Enterprise Applicatin Integration ..................................Christoph Bussler__62

Announcements and Notices
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