| 1988 | A Framework for Comparison of Update Semantics. Marianne Winslett |
| 1988 | A Generalized Transitive Closure for Relational Queries. Seppo Sippu, Eljas Soisalon-Soininen |
| 1988 | A Semantics for Complex Objects and Approximate Queries. Peter Buneman, Susan B. Davidson, Aaron Watters |
| 1988 | An Algorithm for Ordering Subgoals in NAIL! Katherine A. Morris |
| 1988 | An Axiomatic Approach to Deciding Query Safety in Deductive Databases. Michael Kifer, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Abraham Silberschatz |
| 1988 | Analysis of Bounded Disorder File Organization. M. V. Ramakrishna, P. Mukhopadhyay |
| 1988 | Analytical Modeling of Materialized View Maintenance. Jaideep Srivastava, Doron Rotem |
| 1988 | Concepts for a Database System Compiler. Don S. Batory |
| 1988 | Concurrent Set Manipulation without Locking. Vladimir Lanin, Dennis E. Shasha |
| 1988 | Counting Methods for Cyclic Relations. Ramsey W. Haddad, Jeffrey F. Naughton |
| 1988 | Database Updates in Logic Programming. Shamim A. Naqvi, Ravi Krishnamurthy |
| 1988 | Decidability and Undecidability Results for Boundedness of Linear Recursive Queries. Moshe Y. Vardi |
| 1988 | Decomposition of Relational Schemata into Components Defined by Both Projection and Restriction. Stephen J. Hegner |
| 1988 | Explicit Control of Logic Programs Through Rule Algebra. Tomasz Imielinski, Shamim A. Naqvi |
| 1988 | Hybrid Concurrency Control for Abstract Data Types. Maurice Herlihy, William E. Weihl |
| 1988 | Independence-reducible Database Schemes. Edward P. F. Chan, Héctor J. Hernández |
| 1988 | Minimizing Time-Space Cost For Database Version Control. Lin Yu, Daniel J. Rosenkrantz |
| 1988 | Object-Oriented Database Systems. François Bancilhon |
| 1988 | On the Expressive Power of Database Queries with Intermediate Types. Richard Hull, Jianwen Su |
| 1988 | On the Expressive Power of Logic Programming Languages with Sets. Gabriel M. Kuper |
| 1988 | Optimization of Multiple-Relation Multiple-Disjunct Queries. M. Muralikrishna, David J. DeWitt |
| 1988 | Optimizing Existential Datalog Queries. Raghu Ramakrishnan, Catriel Beeri, Ravi Krishnamurthy |
| 1988 | Possibilities and Limitations of Using Flat Operators in Nested Algebra Expressions. Jan Paredaens, Dirk Van Gucht |
| 1988 | Procedural and Declarative Database Update Languages. Serge Abiteboul, Victor Vianu |
| 1988 | Proceedings of the Seventh ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database Systems, March 21-23, 1988, Austin, Texas, USA Chris Edmondson-Yurkanan, Mihalis Yannakakis |
| 1988 | Rewriting of Rules Containing Set Terms in a Logic Data Model (LDL). Oded Shmueli, Shalom Tsur, Carlo Zaniolo |
| 1988 | Serialization Graph Algorithms for Multiversion Concurrency Control. Thanasis Hadzilacos |
| 1988 | Stable Set and Multiset Operations in Optimal Time and Space. Bing-Chao Huang, Michael A. Langston |
| 1988 | Statistical Estimators for Relational Algebra Expressions. Wen-Chi Hou, Gultekin Özsoyoglu, Baldeo K. Taneja |
| 1988 | Temporal Deductive Databases and Infinite Objects. Jan Chomicki, Tomasz Imielinski |
| 1988 | The Complexity of Ordering Subgoals. Jeffrey D. Ullman, Moshe Y. Vardi |
| 1988 | The Queue Protocol: A Deadlock-free Homogeneous Non-Two-Phase Locking Protocol. Udo Kelter |
| 1988 | Theory of Database Queries. Ashok K. Chandra |
| 1988 | Transaction Synchronisation in Object Bases. Thanasis Hadzilacos, Vassos Hadzilacos |
| 1988 | Unfounded Sets and Well-Founded Semantics for General Logic Programs. Allen Van Gelder, Kenneth A. Ross, John S. Schlipf |
| 1988 | What Should A Database Know? Raymond Reiter |
| 1988 | Why Not Negation by Fixpoint? Phokion G. Kolaitis, Christos H. Papadimitriou |