NSF IDM 99*
1999 Information and Data Management Workshop:
Research Agenda for the 21st Century
March 7-9, 1999, Los Angeles, California
Co-Chairs
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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,
NSF CISE managers, and selected industry and government invitees
including a member of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee,
to
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Identify (a) problems that are fundamental obstacles to 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.
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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.
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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.
Five major discussion groups gathered throughout the workshop, each led
by two co-chairs. The
IDM 99
Workshop Discussion Group Reports present
the findings to help formulate future directions of research in information
and data management focusing in five areas:
For each major area covered we present the mission, issues and recommendations
in one page, followed by a further brief on the subject.
In addition, the
IDM99
workshop proceedings, composed of short reports by IDM PIs/CoPIs on
all projects funded by NSF IDM in the 1998/99 funding period, have 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) plus references produced by each funded project.
IDM99 was organized by an IDM 99 Committee
composed of representative leadership from both the database management
and information retrieval communities. One of the purposes of IDM99 was
to also enhance the communication, collaboration and synergism needed
by these two major communities to meet the challenges and identify, influence
and enable R&D directions into the 21st Century.
The IDM99 Web site is at http://www.cs.ucla.edu/csd/IDM99.
*This workshop was supported by the National Science Foundation, Information
and
Data Management Program under the grants IIS-9904998 (PI: Alfonso F. Cardenas)
and
IIS-9905026 (PI: Edward A. Fox). All opinions, findings, conclusions
and recommendations
in any material resulting from this workshop are those of the workshop
participants and
do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation
Please send any questions or problems to:
Roderick Son
This page is located at http://www.cs.ucla.edu/csd/IDM99/Overview.
This page was last updated : Thursday December
23, 1999