RAPID: Supporting Family Reunification for the Haiti Earthquake and Future Emergencies

PI的团队正在为海地地震建立一个家庭团聚网站。除了在谷歌和许多其他志愿者的协调下，从http://haiticrisis.appspot.com/的储存库的网页中爬行和抓取数据外，该团队还建立了一个强大的数据搜索界面。在这项工作中，团队确定了几个有趣的研究挑战，以便在这个项目中进行研究，以使系统更具可扩展性。该项目的智力优势包括在云计算基础设施中支持强大的关键字搜索，以及高效的索引结构和算法，该基础设施因支持大规模应用而越来越受欢迎。主要的挑战是如何使用云中有限的编程原语来实现索引结构和搜索算法。该项目中开发的技术将对许多正在转向云计算范式的信息系统产生广泛的影响。在家庭团聚领域采用这些技术将在我们的社会中产生重大影响，帮助人们在灾难中找到他们的亲人。PI的团队将使用Google Person Finder项目作为一个真正的应用程序，在海地地震中测试这些技术。该团队计划在未来的版本中提供这些技术和源代码，以便在未来的灾难中将这些技术用于家庭团聚。有关更多信息，请参阅该项目的网站：http://fr.ics.uci.edu/haiti/

The PI's team is working on a website for family reunification for the Haiti earthquake. In addition to crawling and scraping data from Web pages for the repository at http://haiticrisis.appspot.com/ coordinated by Google and many other volunteers, the team has built a powerful search interface on the data. During this effort, the team has identified several interesting research challenges to be studied in this project in order to make the system more scalable. The intellectual merits of this project include the support of powerful keyword search with efficient indexing structures and algorithms in a clouding-computing infrastructure that is increasingly popular for supporting large scale applications. The main challenge is how to use limited programming primitives in the cloud to implement index structures and search algorithms.The techniques developed in this project will have a broad impact on many information systems that are moving to the cloud-computing paradigm. The adoption of the techniques in the family-reunification domain will have a significant impact in our society by helping people find their loved ones in a disaster. The PI's team will use the Google Person Finder project as a real application to test the techniques in the Haiti earthquake. The team plans to provide the techniques and source code in future releases so that the techniques can be used in family reunification during future disasters.For further information see the project web site at the URL: http://fr.ics.uci.edu/haiti/