Database Research at the UW

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Database Research at the UW

• Faculty Alon Halevy and Dan Suciu. A dozen Ph.D
  students
• Related faculty Oren Etzioni, Pedro Domingos,
  Dan Weld and Henry Kautz.
• Focus
• Integration of data from multiple autonomous data
  sources.
• Efficient processing of XML data.
• Producing results of queries as web sites or
  other flexible presentations -- that is, flexible
  construction of data-intensive / adaptive web
  sites.
• Data management for ubiquitous computing.
• Model management tools (in collaboration with P.
  Bernstein).
• Machine Learning techniques for data mining.

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Query Processing for Data Integration

• Query across multiple network-bound sources
• Autonomous data, subject to update (Tukwila
  interleaves planning and execution)

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Query Processing for XML

• XML emerging standard for sharing data.
• XML-QL invented by Suciu and Halevy. Basis for
  W3C working group on standard query language.
• Xmill Suciu, 2000 compressing XML data. Best
  paper award at SIGMOD-2000.
• Processing streaming XML data the Tukwila System
  (Ives, Halevy, Weld).
• Interfacing XML with relational databases.

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XML the Data Format for Information Exchange
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Sagres Data Management forUbiquitous Computing

• Key view devices as data sources that can answer
  queries and have effects on the world

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Sagres Architecture