| 1981 | A Commercial Back-End Data Base System J. P. Armisen, J. Y. Caleca |
| 1981 | A Compression Technique for Large Statistical Data-Bases Susan J. Eggers, Frank Olken, Arie Shoshani |
| 1981 | A Database Approach to Modelling and Managing Security Information U. Bussolati, Giancarlo Martella |
| 1981 | A History of System R and SQL/Data System (Invited Paper) Donald D. Chamberlin, A. M. Gilbert, Robert A. Yost |
| 1981 | A Method for Defining Information Structures and Transactions in Conceptual Schema Design Hirotaka Sakai |
| 1981 | A Performance Evaluation of Data Base Machine Architectures (Invited Paper) David J. DeWitt, Paula B. Hawthorn |
| 1981 | A Resource Class Independent Deadlock Detection Algorithm Catriel Beeri, Ron Obermarck |
| 1981 | A Theory of Correct Locking Protocols for Database Systems Donald S. Fussell, Zvi M. Kedem, Abraham Silberschatz |
| 1981 | A Transformational Framework for the Automatic Control of Derived Data Shaye Koenig, Robert Paige |
| 1981 | Algorithms for Acyclic Database Schemes Mihalis Yannakakis |
| 1981 | Application of DBMS to Land Information Systems Andrew U. Frank |
| 1981 | Application of Data Compression to a Large Bibliographic Data Base Clifford A. Lynch, E. B. Brownrigg |
| 1981 | Concepts of Sorting and Projection in a Cellular Array Mieczyslaw Muraszkiewicz |
| 1981 | Concurrent Data Base Reorganization - Assessment of a Powerful Technique through Modeling Lars Söderlund |
| 1981 | Constraints on Null Values in Relational Databases Billie S. Goldstein |
| 1981 | DSIS - A Database System with Interrelational Semantics Y. Edmund Lien, Jonathan E. Shopiro, Shalom Tsur |
| 1981 | Data Base Machines: System Evaluation and Conversion Issues Stanley Y. W. Su |
| 1981 | Data Base System Performance Prediction Using an Analytical Model (Invited Paper) Kenneth C. Sevcik |
| 1981 | Data Bases for Software Development Herbert Weber |
| 1981 | Data Dictionaries: An Assessment of Current Practice and Problems Robert M. Curtice |
| 1981 | Data Model Theory Meets a Practical Application William Kent |
| 1981 | Data Models and Data Manipulation Languages: Complementary Semantics and Proof Theory Alexander Borgida, Harry K. T. Wong |
| 1981 | Deferring Updates in a Relational Data Base System Stephanie J. Cammarata |
| 1981 | Derived Relations: A Unified Mechanism for Views, Snapshots, and Distributed Data Michel E. Adiba |
| 1981 | Design and Analysis of a Relational Join Operation for VLSI Jai Menon, David K. Hsiao |
| 1981 | Digital B-Trees David B. Lomet |
| 1981 | Distributed Data Processing Versus Distributed Data Base Processing Daniel R. Ries |
| 1981 | Efficient Processing of Interactive Relational Data Base Queries expressed in Logic David H. D. Warren |
| 1981 | Hardware Organization for Nonnumeric Processing Sakti Pramanik |
| 1981 | IML-Inscribed Nets for Modeling Text Processing and Data (Base) Management Systems Gernot Richter |
| 1981 | Impacts of Logic and Databases (Invited Paper) Hervé Gallaire |
| 1981 | Independent Components of Databases François Bancilhon, Nicolas Spyratos |
| 1981 | Information Systems Design Approach Integrating Data and Transactions Michel Léonard, B. T. Luong |
| 1981 | Integrating Data Base and Message Systems (Invited Paper) Dennis Tsichritzis |
| 1981 | Join Graphs and Acyclic Database Schemes Karen Chase |
| 1981 | Logical Integration of Locally Independent Relational Databases into a Distributed Database Katsumi Tanaka, Yahiko Kambayashi |
| 1981 | Modelling Events a Data Base Application Design Valeria De Antonellis, Bruna Zonta |
| 1981 | On Modelling Behavioural Semantics of Databases Michael L. Brodie |
| 1981 | On Representing Incomplete Information in a Relational Data Base Tomasz Imielinski, Witold Lipski Jr. |
| 1981 | Optimistic Methods for Concurrency Control in Distributed Database Systems Gunter Schlageter |
| 1981 | QUIST: A System for Semantic Query Optimization in Relational Databases Jonathan J. King |
| 1981 | Reduced Cover-Trees and their Application in the Sabre Access Path Model Kjell Karlsson |
| 1981 | Referential Integrity C. J. Date |
| 1981 | SUBJECT: A Directory Driven System for Organizing and Accessing Large Statistical Databases Paul Chan, Arie Shoshani |
| 1981 | Scheduling of Page-Fetches in Join Operations T. H. Merrett, Yahiko Kambayashi, H. Yasuura |
| 1981 | Separability - An Approach to Physical Data Base Design Kyu-Young Whang, Gio Wiederhold, Daniel Sagalowicz |
| 1981 | Synergistic Authorization in Database Systems Naftaly H. Minsky |
| 1981 | Systematic Derivation of Complementary Specifications Paulo A. S. Veloso, José Mauro Volkmer de Castilho, António L. Furtado |
| 1981 | The Active Information System: A Data-Driven System for the Analysis of Imprecise Data Christine A. Montgomery, Enrique H. Ruspini |
| 1981 | The Implementation of GERM, An Entity-Relationship Data Base Management System R. L. Benneworth, C. D. Bishop, C. J. M. Turnbull, W. D. Holman, F. M. Monette |
| 1981 | The Optimization Strategy for Query Evaluation in RDB/V1 Akifumi Makinouchi, Masayoshi Tezuka, Hajime Kitakami, S. Adachi |
| 1981 | The Transaction Concept: Virtues and Limitations (Invited Paper) Jim Gray |
| 1981 | Theoretical and Practical Tools for Data Base Design Jean-Luc Hainaut |
| 1981 | Transaction Monitoring in ENCOMPASS: Reliable Distributed Transaction Processing Andrea J. Borr |
| 1981 | User Interfaces for Pictorial Data Bases C. Fields |
| 1981 | Very Large Data Bases, 7th International Conference, September 9-11, 1981, Cannes, France, Proceedings |