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Indiana University Database Group


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Research Funding
Data Mapping & Integration
Data & Web Mining, Network Analysis, Information Retrieval
  • Publications
  • Current Projects
    • Data Mining of Approximate Functional Dependencies using an Improvement Threshold
      We are looking at improved search algorithms and metrics for the mining of functional dependencies. Our work attempts to contribute in two areas. The first is the use of Improvement as a constraint to return a non-minimal set of approximate functional dependencies (AFDs). The second area is the development of Adaptive Approximation and Adaptive Improvement which generate thresholds for Approximation and Improvement instead of user inputed ones. Implementation is being done in C/C++ using STL.
    • Topical Web Crawlers and Scalable Search
    • Information Dependencies
Query Languages and Processing - including Spatial Data, Complex Objects
  • Publications
  • Current Projects
    • Structured Document Databases
    • Spatial Database Query Language Theory
  • Past Projects
    • Reflective Query Languages
    • Quantified Queries in Decision Support
    • The GOOD Project (see Jan Paredaens)
Metadata in Databases
  • Federated interoperability depending upon metadata integration - see www.fisql.com
Modeling Information and Information Systems
  • Publications
  • Current Projects
    • Enterprise Architecture Frameworks
    • This project addresses issues of design at the broadest scope - the scope of enterprises encompassing multiple organizations and of systems where software provides both components for those systems and means for management of enterprise complexity. In particular, it seeks to complete and apply a formalization of enterprise architectural frameworks - organizing principles and mechanisms that apply at the highest level. Our vision of "Science of Design" is of multiple models, of principles and mechanisms which arrange and articulate these models, The science is the manner in which design is driven from specification and propagates into realization. A unique aspect of our proposal is the use of the International Standards Organization process to gather input and vet contributions.
Visualization
  • Publications
  • Current Projects
    • Data Visualization Support and Architecture
  • Past Projects
    • Levels of Detail in Information Visualization, with examples in the Nonlinear Magnification Home Page.
    • Conceptual Models and Prototype Systems for Multimedia Systems. Also the Media Library Kiosk Project (led by Munish Gandhi).
XML & Semi-structured Data Management
  • Publications
  • Current Projects
    • Secure XML
    • XML Query Optimization
Miscellaneous (Algorithms & Implementations, Logic Programming)
Pedagogy
The unique approach we have taken to software engineering and information systems courses has resulted in publications describing that pedagogy.