Phil Bernstein
Alon Halevy
Raghu Ramakrishnan

• Identify research challenges in design of information systems
– Areas of strength and weakness in state-of-art
– “Bottleneck” problems
– Unique opportunities, motivating scenarios
• Identify disciplines and groups that must work together to solve these challenges
– Across academia and industry
• Recommend NSF activities to support SDIS
– What types of activities, grants?

• System Evolution
– Changes in usage, system goals, technology
• Broader Context
– IS design vs. SW Design
– Relevant standards
• Important Application Domains, Data Types
– E.g., Bioinformatics; scientific collaboration
– E.g., Text
• Intangibles
– Testing/evaluation; programmatic issues

• A: Design and Data Integration
– Bernstein, Borgida, Florescu, Gasser, Halevy
• B: Design for Dynamic Environments
– Chaudhuri, Franklin, Ramakrishnan, Tsotras, Widom, Yuan
• C: Design and Data Location
– Ghandeharizadeh, Jagadish, Korth, Srivastava, Wolfson
• D: Designing around complex relationships, processes
– Carey, Chrysanthis, Dayal, Su, Thatte
• E: Designing for Security and Privacy
– Clifton, Gehrke, Rosenthal, Sripada, Suciu, Winslett
• At large
– Maria Zemankova (NSF), Bhavani Thuraisingham (NSF)

• Phil Bernstein, philbe@microsoft.com
– Microsoft Research
• Alex Borgida, borgida@cs.rutgers.edu
– Rutgers University
• Daniela Florescu, danielaf@bea.com
– BEA Systems
• Les Gasser, gasser@uiuc.edu
– University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Alon Halevy, alon@cs.washington.edu
– University of Washington at Seattle

• Design and Data Integration
– Bernstein, Borgida, Florescu, Gasser, Halevy
• Semantic integration of legacy enterprise systems and processes
– Deploying complex off-the-shelf systems
– Managing models and mappings
– Emerging standards, services
• Novel settings
– E.g., Internet-scale semantic integration;
Bioinformatics, medical informatics; large-scale collaboration

• Surajit Chaudhuri, surajitc@microsoft.com
– Microsoft Research
• Mike Franklin, franklin@cs.berkeley.edu
– University of California at Berkeley
• Raghu Ramakrishnan, raghu@cs.wisc.edu
– University of Wisconsin at Madison
• Vassilis Tsotras, tsotras@cs.ucr.edu
– University of California at Riverside
• Jennifer Widom, widom@cs.stanford.edu
– Stanford University
• Jun Yuan, jun.yuan@boeing.com
– Boeing

• Design for Dynamic Data Environments
– Chaudhuri, Franklin, Ramakrishnan, Tsotras,
Widom, Yuan
• Rapidly changing data
– Continuous data acquisition, processing
– Information from ongoing analysis
• Provenance of data, processes, schedules
• Conflict-resolution; version management
• Data aging and archiving

• Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, shahram@dblab.usc.edu
– University of Southern California
• H. V. Jagadish, jag@eecs.umich.edu
– Univ. of Michigan-Ann Arbor
• Henry Korth, korth@cse.lehigh.edu
– Lehigh University
• Jaideep Srivastava, srivasta@cs.umn.edu
– University of Minnesota at Minneapolis
• Ouri Wolfson, wolfson@cs.uic.edu
– University of Illinois at Chicago

• Design and Data Location
– Ghandaharizadeh, Jagadish, Korth, Srivastava,
Wolfson
• Middle-tier caching and replication
• Highly distributed data collections
– Web, P2P
• Mobile environments and objects
– Monitoring, tracking, and reactive systems
– Personal computing

• Mike Carey, mcarey@bea.com
– Bea Systems
• Panos Chrysanthis, panos@cs.pitt.edu
– University of Pittsburgh
• Umesh Dayal, umeshwar_dayal@hp.com
– Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
• Jianwen Su, su@cs.ucsb.edu
– University of California at Santa Barbara
• Satish Thatte, satisht@microsoft.com
– Microsoft

• Designing around complex relationships, processes, interactions
– Carey, Chrysanthis, Dayal, Su, Thatte
• Extend the scope of design beyond the traditional focus on data, to encompass patterns of activity
– Business rules, workflow
– Application-level interactions, web services

• Chris Clifton, clifton@cs.purdue.edu
– Purdue University
• Johannes Gehrke, johannes@cs.cornell.edu
– Cornell University
• Arnon Rosenthal, arnie@mitre.org
– Mitre
• Surya Sripada, surya.sripada@boeing.com
– Boeing
• Dan Suciu, suciu@cs.washington.edu
– University of Washington at Seattle
• Marianne Winslett, winslett@cs.uiuc.edu
– University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Designing for Security and Privacy
– Clifton, Gehrke, Rosenthal, Sripada, Suciu, Winslett
• Fine-granularity access control, especially in dynamic systems
• User-level preference specifications
• Methodology of how to develop information systems that utilize emerging tools and verifiably achieve security and privacy goals
– E.g., Secure, privacy-preserving analysis
– E.g., Preventing and detecting intrusions

• 1:30
Overview
– Followed by introductions, discussion
• 3:00
Break
• 3:30
Breakouts
• 5:00
Plenary
– Summary of day’s discussions by each group
• 6:30
Dinner

• 8:00
Breakfast
• 8:30
Breakouts
• 10:00
Break
• 10:30
Breakouts
• 12:00
Lunch
• 1:30
Plenary
– Outline preliminary results of workshop
• 3:00
Break
• 3:30
Discussions

• Reimbursements
– Sign forms, wait for instructions
• Additional material
– Maria’s slides will be sent to you
– Send me anything you want distributed
• Food
– From here on out, you’re covered
• Group structure
– Feel free to move around, but coordinate

• Maria Zemankova
– Suggested the idea, made it possible
• Patrick Allen, David Notkin
– The U. Washington people who advanced money while the grant was being processed
• Melody Bakken
– The grants guru who kept this on track from the
Wisconsin end