Information Systems
Head of this cluster: Lynda Hardman
Secretary of this cluster: Martine Anholt Gunzeln
Phone: +31 (0)20 592 4058
The research activities of INS (information Systems) focus on various aspects of information systems. Important output of the work is the development of prototypes for demonstrating and experimenting with solutions. The policy regarding their construction is to develop them up to the point that real applications can be built and to support the take up through open-source communities. The work mostly addresses the challenges posed by the data explosion but part of the research relates to earth and life sciences.
INS1 - Database Architectures
Group leader: Stefan Manegold
The amount of data managed by database systems and accessed through information retrieval systems is enormous. Information retrieval technology of this group focuses on strategies for structural information retrieval. The scalability issue is addressed using adaptive algorithms at the heart of a modern database system.
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INS2 - Interactive Information Access
Group leader: Arjen de Vries
The research goal is to support human users in obtaining correct information from the huge amounts available, in the appropriate amount, relevant to the task in hand and presented in the appropriate way. The challenge is to develop methods to explore and confirm models of storage, selection, organization and presentation of information.
