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Yochan Information Integration Group
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Yochan Information Integration Group

We are broadly interested in developing flexible frameworks for data and information integration. Our projects include BibFinder, Havasu, and Emerac. We are part of ET-I3 a university-wide initiative on Intelligent Information Integration.

Members

  • Professor Subbarao Kambhampati.

  • Zaiqing Nie is working on BibFinder, a meta-search engine for bibliographic entries, that uses automatically gathered coverage and overlap statistics. Earlier, he had done work on multi-objective query optimization for data integration scenarios.
  • Ullas Nambiar is working on supporting imprecise queries in information aggregation scenarios
  • Thomas Hernandez is working on integrating bio-informatics data sources, and on statistics-oriented approaches for meta-search on text databases.
  • Jianchun Fan is working on flexible approaches for web-service composition

Alumni

  • Eric Lambrecht developed the Emerac data integration system, that uses a novel framework for supporting recursive information gathering queries.
  • Sreelakshmi Vaddi worked on adaptive execution techniques for data integration scenarios.

Publications