| September 2006 | Vol. 29 No. 3 |
IEEE Computer Society
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Letters |
| Letter from the Editor-in-Chief | David Lomet | 1 |
| TC on Data Engineering: Election of Chair for 2007-2008 | Betty Salzberg, David Lomet, Erich Neuhold | 2 |
| Position Statement and Biography | Paul Larson | 2 |
| ELECTION BALLOT | TC ON DATA ENGINEERING | 3 |
| Letter from Chair of Working Group on Self-Managing Database Systems | Sam Lightstone | 4 |
| Letter from the Special Issue Editor | Anastassia Ailamaki | 6 |
Special Issue on Self-Managing Database Systems |
| AutoAdmin: Self-Tuning Database Systems Technology |   |
| Sanjay Agrawal, Nicolas Bruno, Surajit Chaudhuri, Vivek Narasayya | 7 |
| Making DB2 Products Self-Managing: Strategies and Experiences | Sam Lightstone, |   |
| Guy M. Lohman, Peter J. Haas, Volker Markl, Jun Rao, Adam Storm, Maheswaran Surendra, Daniel C. Zilio | 16 |
| Oracle's Self-Tuning Architecture and Solutions | Benoit Dageville, Karl Dias | 24 |
| JOpera: Autonomic Service Orchestration | Cesare Pautasso, Thomas Heinis, Gustavo Alonso | 32 |
| Challenges in building a DBMS Resource Advisor | Dushyanth Narayanan, Eno Thereska, Anastassia Ailamaki | 40 |
| Automated Storage Management with QoS Guarantee in Large-scale Virtualized Storage Systems |   |
| Lin Qiao, Balakrishna R. Iyer, Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi | 47 |
| Early experiences on the journey towards self-* storage |   |
| Michael Abd-El-Malek, William V. Courtright II, Chuck Cranor, Gregory |   |
| R. Ganger, James Hendricks, Andrew J. Klosterman, Michael Mesnier, Manish Prasad, Brandon Salmon, |   |
| Raja R. Sambasivan, Shafeeq Sinnamohideen, John D. Strunk, Eno Thereska, Matthew Wachs, Jay J. Wylie | 55 |
Announcements and Notices |
| VLDB 2006 Call for Participation | backcover |