The group is devoted to the development of new principles, methods and tools for the organization and management of information, in the form of databases.
The focus is on the new requirements generated by the growth of the Internet and of the World-Wide-Web, with the possible availability, in most settings, of various sources of information. The sources can be heterogeneous (and need not be just databases, but Web sites or files) and it is important to offer users integrated and personalized views over them.
The overall approach is to tackle problems that have a practical significance, providing both general solutions (with a theoretical background if relevant) as well as concrete tools that demonstrate the approach.
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