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