| 1986 | A Superjoin Algorithm for Deductive Databases. | James A. Thom, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, Lee Naish |
| 1986 | Framework for the Security Component of an Ada DBMS. | David L. Spooner, Arthur M. Keller, Gio Wiederhold, John Salasin, Deborah Heystek |
| 1986 | Temporal Data Management. | Arie Shoshani, Kyoji Kawagoe |
| 1986 | New Seat Reservation System for Japanese National Railways - Distributed Processing Network and High Efficiency Databases. | Eishiro Seki |
| 1986 | Using History Information to Process Delayed Database Updates. | Sunil K. Sarin, Charles W. Kaufman, Janet E. Somers |
| 1986 | Preliminary Design of ADMS±: A Workstation-Mainframe Integrated Architecture for Database Management Systems. | Nick Roussopoulos, Hyunchul Kang |
| 1986 | A Parallel Processing Strategy for Evaluating Recursive Queries. | Louiqa Raschid, Stanley Y. W. Su |
| 1986 | Knowledge-based Integrity Constraint Validation. | Xiaolei Qian, Gio Wiederhold |
| 1986 | Designing A Generalized NF2 Model with an SQL-Type Language Interface. | Peter Pistor, F. Andersen |
| 1986 | Managing Text as Data. | Gordana Pavlovic-Lazetic, Eugene Wong |
| 1986 | Knowledge-Bases and Database Engineering. | Douglas Stott Parker Jr. |
| 1986 | Simple Random Sampling from Relational Databases. | Frank Olken, Doron Rotem |
| 1986 | Completeness Information and Its Application to Query Processing. | Amihai Motro |
| 1986 | Retrieval-By-Unification Operation on a Relational Knowledge Base. | Yukihiro Morita, Haruo Yokota, Kenji Nishida, Hidenori Itoh |
| 1986 | A Very Large Database System to Serve National Welfare. | Michinao Mori, Kenji Suzuki, Hideo Abe, Kenji Itoh |
| 1986 | A Study of Sort Algorithms for Multiprocessor Database Machines. | Jai Menon |
| 1986 | Toward a General Spatial Data Model for an Object-Oriented DBMS. | Frank Manola, Jack A. Orenstein |
| 1986 | R* Optimizer Validation and Performance Evaluation for Distributed Queries. | Lothar F. Mackert, Guy M. Lohman |
| 1986 | Database Research at MCC (Abstract). | Eugene I. Lowenthal |
| 1986 | The REMIT System for Paraphrasing Relational Query Expressions into Natural Language. | Barry G. T. Lowden, Anne N. De Roeck |
| 1986 | A Study of Index Structures for Main Memory Database Management Systems. | Tobin J. Lehman, Michael J. Carey |
| 1986 | Computer and Communication System Development among Financial Institutions in Japan. | Tsuneo Kurokawa |
| 1986 | Optimization of Nonrecursive Queries. | Ravi Krishnamurthy, Haran Boral, Carlo Zaniolo |
| 1986 | A General Model for Version Management in Databases. | Peter Klahold, Gunter Schlageter, Wolfgang Wilkes |
| 1986 | Optimizing the Rule-Data Interface in a KMS. | Charles Kellogg, Anthony B. O'Hare, Larry Travis |