SEIII: Workshop on Information Integration

讲习班的目的是使全国注意到需要查明和全面审查信息一体化领域的主要挑战（II），以及需要进行的长期研究、工程和开发，以提高应用先进信息技术的最新技术水平和实践水平，解决近期和长期的这些挑战。以数字形式提供的信息的类型和形式非常广泛-图像、视频、文本、音频、传感器和其他形式的流数据，以及结构化数据，如数据库和XML/ HTML文档。虽然数据可能在地理上分布、收集和设计用于特定用途和应用（信息“筒仓”），但在逻辑上往往是相互关联的，许多重要问题只能通过集体访问来回答。然而，尽管在过去20年中进行了大量的研究和开发，真正的特设二仍然是一个难以实现的目标，即真实的实时有效地访问不同的信息系统，以满足意外的信息需求，并将数据合并起来，形成对查询的可靠回答。需要系统地开发II技术，以提供必要的基础设施，从而在访问和分析广泛分布的、异构的、完全不同的信息资源方面取得重大进展。本次研讨会特别重要的是与科学和工程数据以及联邦、医疗和其他记录的整合相关的问题。

The purpose of the workshop is to devote national attention to the need for identifying and comprehensively examining the major challenges in the area of information integration (II) and the required long-term research, engineering and development that will be needed to advance the state of the art and state of the practice in the application of advanced IT to resolve these challenges in the near- and long-term. The type and modality of information available in digital form is vast - image, video, text, audio, sensor and other forms of streaming data, as well as structured data such as databases and XML/ HTML documents. Although the data may be geographically distributed, collected and designed for specific uses and applications ("silos" of information), it is often logically inter-related, and many important questions can only be answered by accessing it collectively. However, despite considerable research and development over the last 20 years, truly ad hoc II, where disparate information systems are accessed efficiently in real time in response to unanticipated information needs and data is combined to form reliable answers to queries, remains an elusive goal. A systematic development of II technologies is needed to provide the necessary infrastructure leading to significant advances in the access to and analysis of widely distributed, heterogeneous, disparate information resources. Of particular importance to this workshop will be issues associated with the integration of science and engineering data and Federal, medical, and other records.