1. Guest editorial

   • Amr El Abbadi
   • Gunter Schlageter
   • Kyu-Young Whang

   Editorial Pages: 119 - 119

2. PicoDBMS: Scaling down database techniques for the smartcard

   • Philippe Pucheral
   • Luc Bouganim
   • Christophe Bobineau

   Special section Pages: 120 - 132

3. Efficiently publishing relational data as XML documents

   • Jayavel Shanmugasundaram
   • Eugene Shekita
   • Berthold Reinwald

   Special section Pages: 133 - 154

4. Approximate query mapping: Accounting for translation closeness

   • Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang
   • Héctor García-Molina

   Special section Pages: 155 - 181

5. MiniCon: A scalable algorithm for answering queries using views

   • Rachel Pottinger
   • Alon Halevy

   Special section Pages: 182 - 198

6. Approximate query processing using wavelets

   • Kaushik Chakrabarti
   • Minos Garofalakis
   • Kyuseok Shim

   Special section Pages: 199 - 223

7. User-cognizant multidimensional analysis

   • Sunita Sarawagi

   Special section Pages: 224 - 239