IDM'2000 Workshop^*

on

Information and Data Management:

Research Agenda into the Future 

Supported by 
National Science Foundation

March 5-7, 2000, Chicago, Illinois

Workshop Co-chairs

Gultekin Ozsoyoglu                                        Clement Yu
Case Western Reserve University               University of Illinois at Chicago
tekin@eecs.cwru.edu                           yu@eecs.uic.edu

   In the present internet, wireless computing and e-commerce era, the field of information and data management and the related applications are expanding and evolving in an unprecedented manner. This is presenting new challenges  to the ways data and information are used and managed, and shaping both the research agenda as well as the technologies to be developed for such applications. 

   NSF  Information and Data Management Workshop,  held on March 5-7, 2000 in Chicago, brought together PI's and CO-PI's from grants funded by the Information and Data Management Program of the National Science Foundation, along with attendees from government, industry and foundations, and invited speakers. This is the third of such workshops, and has the objective of bringing together the PIs and Co-PIs along with selected industry and government invitees, with the following goals:

• Identify 
  (a) problems that are fundamental in making progress toward new research directions,
  (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.
• Provide demonstrations, and have funded researchers interact with each other.
• 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.

   This year's IDM 2000 had four invited talks and a panel. The invited talks were on Biodiversity, Biocomplexity and  Environmental research at NSF, Searching on the Web, E-Commerce. The panel was about data mining. There were eight discussion and breakout groups,  which listed the achievements in the IDM area, and made recommendations for IDM-related Research Areas, Research Initiatives as well as Interdisciplinary Research and Infrastructure Research.   Demonstrations of various projects supported by IDM were also provided.

   The IDM'2000 workshop proceedings, composed of short reports by IDM PIs/Co-PIs on all projects funded by NSF IDM in the 1999/2000 funding period, have been produced for wide dissemination in both hard copy and electronic form on the Web.

  We appreciate very much NSF's support, in particular, Dr. Maria Zemankova as IDM Program Manager, to make IDM2000 possible. As with any conference, IDM2000's success has been due to the participation of our PI and Co-PI colleagues, speakers from NSF and other speakers from industry, government and universities; and we thank them for their contributions.

Clement T. Yu       
Gultekin Ozsoyoglu

Click on a topic below for further information:

Final Reports of the Workshop 

 Reports of Projects  Funded in 1999-2000 by the NSF IDM Program

Reports of the Previous (1999, 1998) NSF IDM Workshops

Workshop Organization Information

Organizing Committee

Workshop Program ( postscript   pdf   rtf  html )

Survey Results about NSF IDM Workshops

*This workshop was sponsored by the National Science Foundation, under the grant IIS-0001534 (PI: Clement Yu) awarded by the Information and Data Management Program of the Information and Intelligent Systems Division. All opinions, findings, conclusions and recommendations in any material resulting from this workshop are those of the participants, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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