- research themes
- research groups
- Algorithms and Complexity
- Computational Dynamics
- Cryptology
- Database Architectures
- Distributed and Interactive Systems
- Formal Methods
- Information Access
- Intelligent Systems
- Life Sciences
- Multiscale Dynamics
- Networks and Optimization
- Scientific Computing
- Software Analysis and Transformation
- Stochastics
- research staff
- In brief
Database Architectures
Leader of the group Database Architectures (INS1): Martin Kersten
Multimedia information access provides the key technology for the creation of artifacts that assist us smoothly in our daily lives, improving our experiences at work and pleasure. Yet, creating such artifacts proves to be a challenging engineering process: the complexity of state of the art technology is ever increasing, due to the required integration of various, (independently imperfect) content-based analysis techniques (domain-specific as well as generic), while, simultaneously, the size of multimedia collections to be handled grows significantly, because more data become available in digital form.
The work carried out is focused on bridging the gap between (autonomous) distributed database architectures and the need to scale algorithms for multimedia information retrieval beyond a few thousand elements. Such a multidisciplinary approach is considered pivotal for making progress.
Both research lines are supported by activities geared at bridging the technology gap itself using our MonetDB product family, a collection of tools to build information systems, using our innovative technology.
This group is part of the cluster Information Systems (INS).
Members
Peter Boncz, Maarten Clements, Roberto Cornacchia, Fabian Groffen,
Stratos Idreos, Milena Ivanova, Martin Kersten, Erietta Liarou, Stefan Manegold, Sjoerd Mullender, Niels Nes, Romulo Antonio Pereira Goncalves, Leftheris Sidirourgos, Arno Siebes, Ying Zhang.
Group publications
Publications of Database Architectures and Information Access in CWI repository
Cooperation
- UvA ISIS - Intelligent Sensory Information Systems Research Group at the University of Amsterdam.
- The ERCIM Database Research Working Group.
Projects
- EMILI - Emergency Management in Large Infrastructures (EU-FP7-SEC)
- LOD2 - Creating Knowledge out of Interlinked Data (EU-FP7-ICT)
- TELEIOS - Virtual Observatory Infrastructure for Earth Observation Data (EU-FP7-ICT)
- PlanetData (EU-FP7-ICT)
