Cathy M. Wyss Ph.D. (Indiana U.), M.Sc. (U. Edinburgh), Dip. (Cantab.), M.Phil. (Cantab.), B.A. (McGill U.) Joint Assistant Professor of Informatics and Computer Science Indiana University School of Informatics Indiana University Computer Science Department

My group researches and provides solutions for integrating heterogeneous, distributed information sources. These sources usually contain information about the same real-world domain but are commonly stored in different formats, such as plain or formatted text, spreadsheets, relational databases, or according to web-related specification standards such as XML or HTML. We look at all aspects of information integration, but are especially interested in the logical and formal foundations of matching different information representations, as well as implementing modular solutions within this framework.

Research

• Projects:
  
  
  • FIRA/FISQL
  
  
  
  • MIQIS, which stands for Modular Integration of Queryable Information Sources. Sub-projects of MIQIS include:
    • Metadata Exchange and Integration (PI: George Fletcher),
    • Distributed and Peer-to-Peer Query Processing (PI: Jeremy Engle).
  
  
  • Metadata Languages and Models for ROLAP (PI: Fulya Erdinc).



• Current Ph.D. Students:
  
  
  • George Fletcher
  • Fulya Erdinc
  • Jeremy Engle



• Publications
  • Electronic versions coming soon! For now, please see my CV.




• Curriculum Vitae




• My Informatics Faculty Profile

Teaching

• Current Courses: (Fall 2005)
  • Informatics I308 "Information Representation"
  • Computer Science B561 "Advanced Database Concepts"


• Past Courses: (no longer maintained)
  • INFO I308: Fall 2004, Spring 2004, Fall 2003, Spring 2003, Fall 2002
  • CSCI B561: Fall 2004, Fall 2003, Fall 2001, Fall 2000, Fall 1999
  • CSCI B461: Fall 2002, Fall 2001, Fall 2000, Fall 1999
  • CSCI A111/A112: Spring 1999, Spring 2000, Spring 2001


• Texts Authored:
  • Information Representation (212 pages)
  • Introduction to Computers and Computing: Lab Manual; 3rd edition (75 pages) IU ClassPak Publishing. December 2001. (2nd edition December 2000; 1st edition December 1999)

Service

• Professional Memberships:
  • ACM; also SIGMOD, SIGIR, SIGKDD, SIGCSE
  • IEEE-CS; also TCDE


• Committees, etc:
  • Informatics: Undergraduate Education Committee, Faculty Recorder, Academic Fairness Committee
  • Computer Science: Graduate Education Committee