| December 2011 | Vol. 34 No. 4 |
IEEE Computer Society
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Letters |
| Letter from the Editor-in-Chief | David Lomet | 1 |
| Letter from the Special Issue Editors | Shivnath Babu and Kai-Uwe Sattler | 2 |
Special Issue on Self-Managing Databases: Lessons Learned and Challenges Ahead |
| Database Self-Management: Taming the Monster | Mohammed Abouzour, Ivan T. |   |
| Bowman, Peter Bumbulis, David E. DeHaan, Anil K. Goel, Anisoara Nica, G. N. Paulley, and John Smirnios | 3 |
| AutoAdmin Project at Microsoft Research: Lessons Learned | Nicolas |   |
| Bruno, Surajit Chaudhuri, Arnd Christian König, Vivek Narasayya, Ravi Ramamurthy, and Manoj Syamala | 12 |
| A Decade of Oracle Database Manageability |   |
| Pete Belknap, John Beresniewicz, Benoit Dageville, Karl Dias, Uri Shaft, and Khaled Yagoub | 20 |
| Benchmarking Online Index-Tuning Algorithms |   |
| Ivo Jimenez, Jeff LeFevre, Neoklis Polyzotis, Huascar Sanchez, and Karl Schnaitter | 28 |
| Adaptive Processing of User-Defined Aggregates in Jaql |   |
| Andrey Balmin, Vuk Ercegovac, Rares Vernica, and Kevin Beyer | 36 |
| Challenges and Opportunities in Self-Managing Scientific Databases | Thomas |   |
| Heinis, Miguel Branco, Ioannis Alagiannis, Renata Borovica, Farhan Tauheed, and Anastasia Ailamaki | 44 |
| Challenges and Opportunities for Managing Data Systems Using Statistical Models |   |
| Yanpei Chen, Archana Ganapathi, and Randy Katz | 53 |
| SQL Azure as a Self-Managing Database Service: Lessons Learned and Challenges Ahead |   |
| Kunal Mukerjee, Tomas Talius, Ajay Kalhan, Nigel Ellis, and Conor Cunningham | 61 |
Announcements and Notices |
| ICDE 2012 Conference | backcover |