| 1986 | A General Model for Version Management in Databases. Peter Klahold, Gunter Schlageter, Wolfgang Wilkes |
| 1986 | A Parallel Processing Strategy for Evaluating Recursive Queries. Louiqa Raschid, Stanley Y. W. Su |
| 1986 | A Reliable Backend Using Multiattribute Clustering and Select-Join Operator. Jean-Pierre Cheiney, Pascal Faudemay, Rodolphe Michel, Jean-Marc Thévenin |
| 1986 | A Study of Index Structures for Main Memory Database Management Systems. Tobin J. Lehman, Michael J. Carey |
| 1986 | A Study of Sort Algorithms for Multiprocessor Database Machines. Jai Menon |
| 1986 | A Superjoin Algorithm for Deductive Databases. James A. Thom, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, Lee Naish |
| 1986 | A Unifying Framework for Version Control in a CAD Environment. Hong-Tai Chou, Won Kim |
| 1986 | A Very Large Database System to Serve National Welfare. Michinao Mori, Kenji Suzuki, Hideo Abe, Kenji Itoh |
| 1986 | Adaptive Predicate Managers in Database Systems. Stefan Böttcher, Matthias Jarke, Joachim W. Schmidt |
| 1986 | An Extended Relational Database System and It's Application to Management of Logic Diagrama. Yosihisa Udagawa, Tetsuo Mizoguchi |
| 1986 | An Observation on Database Buffering Performance Metrics. Robert B. Hagmann |
| 1986 | An Overview of The System Software of A Parallel Relational Database Machine GRACE. Shinya Fushimi, Masaru Kitsuregawa, Hidehiko Tanaka |
| 1986 | Anyone for a VLDB in The Year 2000? S. Misbah Deen |
| 1986 | Checking Consistency of Database Constraints: a Logical Basis. François Bry, Rainer Manthey |
| 1986 | Choosing a View Update Translator by Dialog at View Definition Time. Arthur M. Keller |
| 1986 | Completeness Information and Its Application to Query Processing. Amihai Motro |
| 1986 | Computer and Communication System Development among Financial Institutions in Japan. Tsuneo Kurokawa |
| 1986 | Concurrent Operations in Extendible Hashing. Meichun Hsu, Wei-Pang Yang |
| 1986 | Database Research at MCC (Abstract). Eugene I. Lowenthal |
| 1986 | Designing A Generalized NF2 Model with an SQL-Type Language Interface. Peter Pistor, F. Andersen |
| 1986 | ECRINS/86: An Extended Entity-Relationship Data Base Management System and its Semantic Query Language. Marc Junet, Gilles Falquet, Michel Léonard |
| 1986 | Estimating Block Accessses when Attributes are Correlated. Brad T. Vander Zanden, Howard M. Taylor, Dina Bitton |
| 1986 | Framework for the Security Component of an Ada DBMS. David L. Spooner, Arthur M. Keller, Gio Wiederhold, John Salasin, Deborah Heystek |
| 1986 | GAMMA - A High Performance Dataflow Database Machine. David J. DeWitt, Robert H. Gerber, Goetz Graefe, Michael L. Heytens, Krishna B. Kumar, M. Muralikrishna |
| 1986 | Historical Multi-Media Databases. Michel E. Adiba, N. Bui Quang |
| 1986 | Implementation Techniques of Complex Objects. Patrick Valduriez, Setrag Khoshafian, George P. Copeland |
| 1986 | Knowledge-Bases and Database Engineering. Douglas Stott Parker Jr. |
| 1986 | Knowledge-based Integrity Constraint Validation. Xiaolei Qian, Gio Wiederhold |
| 1986 | LDL: A Logic-Based Data Language. Shalom Tsur, Carlo Zaniolo |
| 1986 | Managing Text as Data. Gordana Pavlovic-Lazetic, Eugene Wong |
| 1986 | Multiple Query Processing in Deductive Databases using Query Graphs. Upen S. Chakravarthy, Jack Minker |
| 1986 | New Seat Reservation System for Japanese National Railways - Distributed Processing Network and High Efficiency Databases. Eishiro Seki |
| 1986 | Object and File Management in the EXODUS Extensible Database System. Michael J. Carey, David J. DeWitt, Joel E. Richardson, Eugene J. Shekita |
| 1986 | On Affinity Based Routing in Multi-System Data Sharing. Philip S. Yu, Douglas W. Cornell, Daniel M. Dias, Balakrishna R. Iyer |
| 1986 | On Analogical Query Processing in Logic Database. Takashi Yokomori |
| 1986 | On the Computation of the Transitive Closure of Relational Operators. Yannis E. Ioannidis |
| 1986 | On the Properties of Extended Inclusion Dependencies. Hiroshi Arisawa, Takao Miura |
| 1986 | Optimization of Nonrecursive Queries. Ravi Krishnamurthy, Haran Boral, Carlo Zaniolo |
| 1986 | Optimizing the Rule-Data Interface in a KMS. Charles Kellogg, Anthony B. O'Hare, Larry Travis |
| 1986 | Preliminary Design of ADMS±: A Workstation-Mainframe Integrated Architecture for Database Management Systems. Nick Roussopoulos, Hyunchul Kang |
| 1986 | R* Optimizer Validation and Performance Evaluation for Distributed Queries. Lothar F. Mackert, Guy M. Lohman |
| 1986 | Relational Data Model with Cause-Effect Association (Abstract). Qingda Yao, Rong Yi |
| 1986 | Research and Development on Knowledge Bases Systems at ICOT. Hidenori Itoh |
| 1986 | Retrieval-By-Unification Operation on a Relational Knowledge Base. Yukihiro Morita, Haruo Yokota, Kenji Nishida, Hidenori Itoh |
| 1986 | Simple Random Sampling from Relational Databases. Frank Olken, Doron Rotem |
| 1986 | Temporal Data Management. Arie Shoshani, Kyoji Kawagoe |
| 1986 | The Idea of De-Clustering and its Applications. M. T. Fang, Richard C. T. Lee, Chin-Chen Chang |
| 1986 | The Management of Dynamically Distributed Database Windows (Extended Abstract). Qiming Chen |
| 1986 | The REMIT System for Paraphrasing Relational Query Expressions into Natural Language. Barry G. T. Lowden, Anne N. De Roeck |
| 1986 | Toward a General Spatial Data Model for an Object-Oriented DBMS. Frank Manola, Jack A. Orenstein |
| 1986 | Towards DBMSs for Supporting New Applications. Serge Abiteboul, Michel Scholl, Georges Gardarin, Eric Simon |
| 1986 | Translating Aggregate Queries into Iterative Programs. Johann Christoph Freytag, Nathan Goodman |
| 1986 | Translation and Optimization of Logic Queries: The Algebraic Approach. Stefano Ceri, Georg Gottlob, Luigi Lavazza |
| 1986 | Transposition Algorithms on Very Large Compressed Databases. Harry K. T. Wong, J. Z. Li |
| 1986 | Updating Derived Relations: Detecting Irrelevant and Autonomously Computable Updates. José A. Blakeley, Neil Coburn, Per-Åke Larson |
| 1986 | Using History Information to Process Delayed Database Updates. Sunil K. Sarin, Charles W. Kaufman, Janet E. Somers |
| 1986 | VLDB'86 Twelfth International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, August 25-28, 1986, Kyoto, Japan, Proceedings. Wesley W. Chu, Georges Gardarin, Setsuo Ohsuga, Yahiko Kambayashi |