Institute leader: Domenico Talia (taliadeis.unical.it), University of Calabria

 
The overall objective of this Institute is to further the integration of data management and knowledge discovery with GRID technologies for providing knowledge-based GRID for the Semantic GRID and the Knowldege GRID. The institute provides a collaborative setting of European research teams working on: distributed storage management on GRIDs; development knowledge techniques and tools for supporting data intensive applications; and the integration of data and computation GRIDs with information and knowledge GRIDs. The goal is to strengthen the joint activity of research groups that today have sporadic and partial collaboration promoting larger leading teams and supporting efforts towards standard models and tools for data and knowledge management on GRIDs and P2P systems.

This Institute has tasks in three main areas:

• Distributed Data Management   Providing infrastructures, techniques, and policies for managing storage resources in the GRID.

• Information and Knowledge Management   Developing metadata, semantic representation, and protocols for GRID service discovery, information management and design of designing knowledge-oriented GRID services.

• Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery   Design of GRID resource semantic mapping, database querying on GRIDs, and services and for distributed data mining and knowledge discovery on GRIDs.