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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; the use of ontologies in integration; combining text
with structured data; data augmentation; mappings and global integrity;
data exchange and update reconciliation; schema or instance matching and
ontology alignment; imprecision and uncertainty in data and inferences;
reliable query answering in the presence of uncertainty; tracking the
origins of data; and "hands-off" integration. Technical issues
associated with heterogeneous sensitivities, differential access, and
mandated sharing in large collections will also be discussed.
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