报告摘要：Information integration typically requires the construction of complex artifacts like federated databases, ETL scripts, data warehouses, and applications for accessing multiple and varied data sources. IBM continues to lead in innovation of intelligent tools needed to simplify this difficult task. Clio is a schema mapping system for information integration developed at IBM Almaden Research that serves as the test bed for new ideas in schema mapping. This talk describes current research on simplifying information integration using advancements in schema mapping techniques and outlines a research and technology vision toward the convergence of ETL, XML, Web services and mashups with information integration.

内容简介：
Information integration typically requires the construction of complex artifacts like federated databases, ETL scripts, data warehouses, and applications for accessing multiple and varied data sources. IBM continues to lead in innovation of intelligent tools needed to simplify this difficult task. Clio is a schema mapping system for information integration developed at IBM Almaden Research that serves as the test bed for new ideas in schema mapping. This talk describes current research on simplifying information integration using advancements in schema mapping techniques and outlines a research and technology vision toward the convergence of ETL, XML, Web services and mashups with information integration.

 Bio:
 Howard (Ching-Tien) Ho (何清田) received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the National Taiwan University in 1979 and a Ph.D. degree in computer science from Yale University in 1990. 
 He joined IBM Almaden Research Center as a Research Staff Member in 1989. He was manager of the Foundations of Massively Parallel Computing group from 1994 to 1996, where he led the development of collective communication, as part of IBM MPL and MPI, for IBM SP-1 and SP-2 parallel systems. He is manager of the Intelligent Information Integration group and the Clio Project since March 2001. His current research interests include XML and database, especially on the schema mapping and information integration, and data mining. His past research interests include on-line analytical processing (OLAP), communication issues for interconnection networks, algorithms for collective communications, graph embeddings, fault tolerance, and parallel algorithms and architectures. He has published over 30 journal papers and over 50 conference papers in these areas.

Dr. Ho is a co-recipient of the 1986 ``Outstanding Paper Award'' of the International Conference on Parallel Processing. He has received an IBM Outstanding Innovation Award, three IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards, and six IBM Plateau Invention Achievement Awards. He has filed 18 patents. He has served on the Editorial Boards of the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems for four years. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Interconnection Networks. He has served as program vice-chairs twice for parallel processing conferences. He has co-edited a book "Large-Scale Parallel Data Mining" by Springer-Verlag in 2000. He has served Organizing Chair of Web Intelligence 2007. He has served on over 40 program committees of conferences and workshops in parallel processing, data mining and database.