IDM 99 Workshop Discussion Group Reports 1999 NSF Information and Data Management Workshop: Research Agenda for the 21st Century March 7-9, 1999

The recent advances in computer, networking and storage technologies, the explosion of publishing, and the vast increase in data availability from the Internet and other sources such as satellites, have enabled the emergence of an unprecedented number of new computer applications, which present new challenges to the ways data and information are used and managed. These challenges will shape both the research agenda as well as the technology to be developed for the 21st century.

This workshop brought together the PIs and Co-PIs funded in 1998-99 by the Information and Data Management Program (IDM) of the National Science Foundation, along with selected industry and government invitees, to:

1. Identify (a) problems that are fundamental in making progress toward this new challenge; (b) areas where major breakthroughs appear possible; (c) needed collaborations (e.g., inter-disciplinary, academic-industry); and (d) research initiatives and facilities needed to meet these and future challenges.
2. Provide demonstrations and interact with each other on the objectives, contributions and challenges of major research activities funded by the IDM and explore fruitful collaboration and synergism.
3. Provide an opportunity for NSF program officers, other foundations and funding agencies, and industry representatives to learn more about the current research efforts and successes of projects funded by IDM, and for such officers to share their program highlights and concerns.

In addition, the IDM99 workshop proceedings, composed of short reports on all projects currently funded by NSF IDM, has been produced for wide dissemination in both hard copy and electronic form on the Web. The reports include information relevant to NSF's GPRA Performance Plan Outcome Goals (e.g., connections between discoveries and their use in service to society).

The IDM99 Web site is at http://www.cs.ucla.edu/csd/IDM99.

Alfonso F. Cardenas University of California, Los Angeles Co-Chair

Edward A. Fox       Virginia Tech       Co-Chair

IDM99 Committee

1. Next Generation Information Access
Co-chairs:	Christos Faloutsos, christos@athena.pc.cs.cmu.edu, Carnegie Mellon University Terence Smith, smithtr@cs.ucsb.edu, University of California, Santa Barbara
Participants:	List of Participants
Report:	Mission, Issues and Recommendations ( HTML, Word )

2. Information Presentation and Visualization
Co-Chairs:	Aidong Zhang, azhang@cse.buffalo.edu, State University of New York at Buffalo Elke Rundensteiner, rundenst@cs.wpi.edu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Participants:	List of Participants
Report:	Mission, Issues and Recommendations ( HTML, Word )

3. Languages, Data Models and Application Models
Co-Chairs:	Susan Urban, s.urban@asu.edu, Arizona State University Nick Belkin, nick@belkin.rutgers.edu, Rutgers University
Participants:	List of Participants
Report:	Mission, Issues and Recommendations ( HTML, Word )

4. Open and Autonomous Data on the Net (formerly "Integration, Interoperability and Heterogeneity")
Coordinators:	Paul Kantor, kantor@scils.rutgers.edu, Rutgers University Peter Buneman, peter@cis.upenn.edu, University of Pennsylvania
Participants:	List of Participants
Report:	Mission, Issues and Recommendations ( HTML, Word )

5. IR and DM in the WWW, Internet and Wireless Era
Co-Chairs:	Richard Furuta, furuta@cs.tamu.edu, Texas A&M University Yannis Papakonstantinou, yannis@cs.ucsd.edu, University of CA, San Diego
Participants:	List of Participants
Report:	Mission, Issues and Recommendations ( HTML, Word )

This page is located at http://www.cs.ucla.edu/csd/IDM99/FinalReports/.

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