Information Integration

The Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) has identi ed the area of information systems, broadly construed, as one of three core areas for the department's future directions. In tandem with a mandate from the UIUC College of Engineering for the department to double its number of tenure-track faculty, this focus on information systems has resulted in a signi cant expansion of the number of faculty in the department in the database area over the past few years. Our roster currently includes Marianne Winslett, who joined the department in 1987; Kevin Chang and Jiawei Han, who joined us in 2000 and 2001, respectively; and AnHai Doan, Chengxiang Zhai, and Yuanyuan Zhou, who joined the department in 2002. In the near future, we plan to round out the information systems group with additional hires of senior faculty. This short report describes the information systems research activities currently underway in our department. More information on these projects can be found through our web site, http://drl.cs.uiuc.edu.