1999 NSF Information and Data Management Workshop: Research Agenda for the 21st Century -- IDM 99

IDM99研讨会由机构间补助金IIS-9904998， Alfonso Cardenas， UCLA和IIS-9905026， Edward Fox，弗吉尼亚理工学院支持。研讨会于1999年3月7日至9日在加州大学洛杉矶分校举行。计算机和网络技术和存储方面的最新进展、出版的爆炸式增长以及来自卫星等来源的可获得数据的大量增加，使前所未有数量的新计算机应用得以出现，这对数据和信息的使用和管理方式提出了新的挑战。这一挑战将塑造21世纪的研究议程和有待开发的技术。研讨会的目的是将目前由美国国家科学基金会信息和数据管理计划（IDM）资助的项目负责人和合作项目负责人作为两个领域的代表，即信息管理（通常称为信息检索）和数据管理（通常称为数据库管理），以及选定的行业和政府受邀者聚集在一起，以便：(1)合作(a)确定在应对这一新挑战方面取得进展的根本问题；(b)指明可能取得重大突破的领域；(c)确定需要的合作（例如，跨学科，学术-行业）；(d)确定应对当前和未来挑战所需的研究计划和设施；(2)就IDM资助的主要研究活动的目标、贡献和挑战进行分享、示范和互动，探索富有成效的合作和协同作用；(3)为NSF、其他资助机构和行业代表提供一个机会，了解IDM资助项目的当前研究工作和成功，并分享他们的亮点和关注点。讲习班将编制会议记录，其中包括关于目前由工发组织资助的所有项目的报告，这些报告将以硬拷贝和电子形式在网上广泛散发。项目报告可以根据不同的标准进行搜索，并提供与NSF的GPRA绩效计划成果目标相关的信息（例如，发现与其在服务社会中的应用之间的联系）。此外，讲习班的研究结果将在一份报告中提出，该报告将有助于制订信息和数据管理方面的未来研究方向，并将建议学术界和工业界有希望的研究方式，以期促进创新和技术转让。讲习班网站（http://www.cs.ucla.edu/csd/IDM99）也将包括其他相关材料的链接。

The IDM99 Workshop is supported by the interinstitutional grants IIS-9904998, Alfonso Cardenas, UCLA and IIS-9905026, Edward Fox, Virginia Polytechnic Institute. The workshop is held March 7-9, 1999 at the University of California, Los Angeles. The recent advances in computer and network technologies and storage, the explosion of publishing, and the vast increase in data availability from such sources as satellites, that have enabled the emergence of an unprecedented number of new computer applications, present a new challenge to the ways data and information are used and managed. This challenge will shape both the research agenda as well as the technology to be developed for the 21st century. The objective of the workshop is to bring together the PIs and Co-PIs currently funded by the Information and Data Management Program (IDM) of the National Science Foundation as representatives of two communities, that is, information management (often referred to as information retrieval) and data management (often referred to as database management), along with selected industry and government invitees, to: (1) cooperatively (a) identify the problems that are fundamental in making progress toward this new challenge; (b) specify areas where major breakthroughs appear possible; (c) identify needed collaborations (e.g., inter-disciplinary, academic-industry); and (d) identify research initiatives and facilities needed to meet this and future challenges; (2) share, 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; and (3) provide an opportunity to NSF, other funding agencies, and industry representatives to learn more about the current research efforts and successes of projects funded by IDM, and as well as to share their highlights and concerns. The workshop will generate proceedings, that include reports on all projects currently funded by IDM, which will be widely disseminated in both hard copy and electronic form on the Web. The project reports are searchable by different criteria and provide information relevant to NSF's GPRA Performance Plan Outcome Goals (e.g., connections between discoveries and their use in service to society). Further, the findings of the workshop will be presented in a report that will help in formulating future directions of research in information and data management and will suggest promising modalities of research in academia and industry with an aim to foster innovation as well as technology transfer. The workshop Web site (http://www.cs.ucla.edu/csd/IDM99) will also include links to other relevant material.