| 1988 | A Formal Model of Trade-off between Optimization and Execution Costs in Semantic Query Optimization. | Shashi Shekhar, Jaideep Srivastava, Soumitra Dutta |
| 1988 | Techniques for Design and Implementation of Efficient Spatial Access Methods. | Bernhard Seeger, Hans-Peter Kriegel |
| 1988 | Fixed-point semantics and the representation of algorithms on large data. | Michel de Rougemont |
| 1988 | Anatomy of a Mudular Multiple Query Optimizer. | Arnon Rosenthal, Upen S. Chakravarthy |
| 1988 | Split-Transactions for Open-Ended Activities. | Calton Pu, Gail E. Kaiser, Norman C. Hutchinson |
| 1988 | Mixed concurrency control: Dealing with heterogeneity in distributed database systems. | Jean-Franois Pons, Jean-Franois Vilarem |
| 1988 | Compact 0-Complete Trees. | Ratko Orlandic, John L. Pfaltz |
| 1988 | Dynamic Derivation of Personalized Views. | Erich J. Neuhold, Michael Schrefl |
| 1988 | Hash-Partitioned Join Method Using Dynamic Destaging Strategy. | Masaya Nakayama, Masaru Kitsuregawa, Mikio Takagi |
| 1988 | Modelling Non Deterministic Queries and Updates in Deductive Databases. | Christophe de Maindreville, Eric Simon |
| 1988 | Extended User-Defined Indexing with Application to Textual Databases. | Clifford A. Lynch, Michael Stonebraker |
| 1988 | Selectivity Estimation and Query Optimization in Large Databases with Highly Skewed Distribution of Column Values. | Clifford A. Lynch |
| 1988 | Computing Facts in Non-Horn Deductive Systems. | Eliezer L. Lozinskii |
| 1988 | Design and Implementation of an Extensible Database Management System Supporting User Defined Data Types and Functions. | Volker Linnemann, Klaus Kspert, Peter Dadam, Peter Pistor, R. Erbe, Alfons Kemper, Norbert Sdkamp, Georg Walch, Mechtild Wallrath |
| 1988 | Rapid Application Prototyping the PROQUEL Language. | Jean-Yves Lingat, Pierre Colignon, Colette Rolland |
| 1988 | Implementing an Interpreter for Functional Rules in a Query Optimizer. | Mavis K. Lee, Johann Christoph Freytag, Guy M. Lohman |
| 1988 | Implementing Queries and Updates on Universal Scheme Interfaces. | Christophe Lcluse, Nicolas Spyratos |
| 1988 | Towards a Real Horn Clause Language. | Ravi Krishnamurthy, Shamim A. Naqvi |
| 1988 | Versions of Schema for Object-Oriented Databases. | Won Kim, Hong-Tai Chou |
| 1988 | Browsing Electronic Mail: Experiences Interfacing a Mail System to a DBMS. | Jack Kent, Douglas B. Terry, Willie-Sue Orr |
| 1988 | A Superimposed Coding Scheme Based on Multiple Block Descriptor Files for Indexing Very Large Data Bases. | Alan J. Kent, Ron Sacks-Davis, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao |
| 1988 | A Performance Study of Query Optimization Algorithms on a Database System Supporting Procedures. | Anant Jhingran |
| 1988 | Efficient Transitive Closure Algorithms. | Yannis E. Ioannidis, Raghu Ramakrishnan |
| 1988 | The Partial Normalized Storage Model of Nested Relations. | Aladdin Hafez, Gultekin zsoyoglu |
| 1988 | Closed World Databases Opened Through Null Values. | Georg Gottlob, Roberto V. Zicari |