SIGMOD REC'04 - December 2004, Volume 33, Number 4 Report on the 7th EDBT Summer School: XML and Databases Riccardo Torlone Paolo Atzeni Interview: C Mohan Speaks Out Marianne Winslett C. Mohan Emergence and Convergence: Qualitative Novelty and the Unity of Knowledge By Mario Bunge Haim Kilov Automatic Direct and Indirect Schema Mapping: Experiences and Lessons Learned David W. Embley Li Xu Yihong Ding Reminiscences on Influential Papers Kenneth A. Ross Peter A. Boncz Ihab F. Ilyas Volker Markl Vasilis Vassalos Report on the first Twente Data Management Workshop on XML Databases and Information Retrieval Djoerd Hiemstra Vojkan Mihajlovic From semantic integration to semantics management: case studies and a way forward Arnon Rosenthal Leonard J. Seligman Scott Renner Semantic Integration: A Survey Of Ontology-Based Approaches Natalya Fridman Noy Kanata: Adaptation and Evolution in Data Sharing Systems Periklis Andritsos Ariel Fuxman Anastasios Kementsietsidis Renée J. Miller UbiData: Requirements and Architecture for Ubiquitous Data Access Abdelsalam Helal Joachim Hammer Editor's Notes Lin Liu Web Services - By G Alonso, F Casati, H Kuno, V Machiraju Dirk Wodtke Report on the 2004 SIGMOD Conference Gerhard Weikum Patrick Valduriez Changes to the ACM TODS Editorial Board Richard T. Snodgrass Industrial-Strength Schema Matching Philip A. Bernstein Sergey Melnik Michalis Petropoulos Christoph Quix Report on the First "XQuery Implementation, Experience, and Perspectives" Workshop (XIME-P) Ioana Manolescu Yannis Papakonstantinou Book Review Column Karl Aberer Holistic Paradigm for Large Scale Schema Matching Bin He Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang Matching Large XML Schemas Erhard Rahm Hong Hai Do Sabine Massmann Chair's Message M. Tamer Özsu Multiplex, Fusionplex, and Autoplex - Three Generations of Information Integration Amihai Motro Jacob Berlin Philipp Anokhin Introduction to the Special Issue on Semantic Integration AnHai Doan Natalya Fridman Noy Alon Y. Halevy Ontologies and Semantics for Seamless Connectivity Michael Uschold Michael Grüninger Return to SIGMOD_REC'04 Sessions ©2005 Association for Computing Machinery