Humanized Database Systems

该研究计划的目标是研究面向人性化数据库系统的算法、用户界面(UI)设计和系统级实现。特别是，我们建议从以用户为中心的方法重新审视下一代个人计算环境的数据库技术的许多方面。我们感兴趣的方面包括但不限于查询接口、数据的可视化和汇总、模式自动推理、信息提取以及云中移动设备和服务器的运行环境中的数据源集成。

The objective of the proposed research program is to investigate algorithms, user interface (UI) design and system level implementation toward a {\em humanized database system}. In particular, we propose to revisit many aspects of the database technology for the next generation of personal computing environment from an user-centric approach. We are interested in aspects including, but not limited to, query interfaces, visualization and summarization of data, automatic schema inference, information extraction and integration of data sources in the runtime environments of mobile devices and servers in the cloud.