Bulletin of the Technical Committee on

Data Engineering

March 2006 ... Vol. 29 No. 1 ……………………………………………………… IEEE Computer Society

Letters
Letter from the Editor-in-Chief ............................................................................................................................... David Lomet ___1
Letter from Chair of Working Group on Self-Managing Database Systems ..................................................... Sam S. Lightstone___2
Letter from the Special Issue Editors .......................................................................................... Minos Garofalakis, Dan Suciu___4

Special Issue on Probabilistic Data Management

An Introduction to ULDBs and the Trio System .............................................................................................................................
.........................................................................................Omar Benjelloun, Anish Das Sarma, Chris Hayworth, Jennifer Widom__5
Models for Incomplete and Probabilistic Information ........................................................................Todd J. Green, Val Tannen__17
Query Evaluation on Probabilistic Databases ...............................................................Christopher Ré, Nilesh Dalvi, Dan Suciu__25
An Introduction to Probabilistic Graphical Models for Relational Data .....................................................................Lise Getoor__32
Avatar Information Extraction System ............................................................................................................................................
........................................T.S. Jayram, Rajasekar Krishnamurthy, Sriram Raghavan, Shivakumar Vaithyanathan, Huaiyu Zhu__40
Towards Activity Databases: Using Sensors and Statistical Models to Summarize People's Lives ...........................................
.....................................................................................Tanzeem Choudhury, Matthai Philipose, Danny Wyatt, Jonathan Lester__49
Probabilistic Data Management for Pervasive Computing: The Data Furnace Project ...........................................................
............................................................................Minos Garofalakis, Kurt P. Brown, Michael J. Franklin, Joseph M. Heller-
........................stein, Daisy Zhe Wang, Eirinaios Michelakis, Liviu Tancau, Eugene Wu, Shawn R. Jeffery, Ryan Aipperspach__57
Community Information Management .............................................................................................................AnHai Doan, Raghu
.......................Ramakrishnan, Fei Chen, Pedro DeRose, Yoonkyong Lee, Robert McCann, Mayssam Sayyadian, Warren Shen__64

Announcements and Notices
ICDE'2007 Data Engineering Conference ...........................................................................................................................backcover