Current Projects

AnyLog
Transforming the edge to a data lake supporting real-time interactive queries

AsterixDB
AsterixDB: Next generation of parallel BDMS (yes, BDMS)

BAD (Big Active Data)
Moving the Big Data world forward from passive to active data management

Contessa
context sensitive system adaptation to support interoperability

Cypress
A CYber Physical RESilliance and Sustainability project

Dissemination
Accurate information dissemination to the public to encourage self-protective actions

Dynamo
A middleware for power-saving adaptation mechanisms for improved QoS on low-power mobile devices

E2E
Environment to Environment Connectivity

EMME
Experiential Media Management Environment

MAPGrid
Using available grid resources for providing multimedia services to mobile users

Privacy Middleware for the Internet
A privacy middleware design to help users benefit from services with no privacy compromise

Responsphere
An IT infrastructure test-bed to emergency response drawing from academia, government, and private enterprise

Texera
Big text analytics using interactive workflows

TIPPERS
Testbed for IoT-based Privacy-Preserving PERvasive Spaces

xTUNE
A Linux-based middleware framework for cross-layer adaptation of power-saving mechanisms for improved QoS and battery lifetime on low-power devices
Selected Past Projects

Cloudberry
Big data's interactive analytics and visualization system

Compose|Q
A reflective architecture for safe composability of middleware services to achieve performance/QoS tradeoffs based on core services

Database as a Service
Explores the data privacy and search challenges in hosting a large-scale data management service over the internet

Family Reunification
Techniques to help people find their loved ones during or after a disaster

FLAMINGO
A research project to create an open-source library for data cleaning and fuzzy query processing

FORGE
Techniques for cross-Layer adaptation that meets QoS/energy tradeoffs for mobile multimedia applications

MARS (Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval System)
An integrated multimedia information retrieval and data management system

QUASAR (Quality Aware Data Management)
An early project on progressive database query evaluation techniques that exploit the tradeoff between cost and result quality

RACCOON
An early project on distributed data integration and sharing

RESCUE (Responding to Crises and Unexpected Events)
Using information technology to dynamically improve crisis response

SAFIRE
Using sensor technology to improve safety of firefighters

SATWARE
Realizing sentient spaces by exploring a multimodal sensor data stream through the use of query

SHERLOCK
Graph-based exploitation of semantics to improve data quality to address ambiguity in entity resolution, record linkage, etc.

TASTIER
TASTIER is a joint research project between Tsinghua University and UC Irvine. It focuses on efficient autocompletion, type-ahead search on large data sets of various types
Other Selected Past IGS Faculty Projects (and Products!)

ALDSP
The AquaLogic Data Services Platform, a commercial service-oriented information integration platform that Prof. Carey contributed to, as an architect and engineering director, while an employee of BEA

IBM DB2
A commercial relational database management system that Prof. Carey contributed to, as leader of a team that added various object-relational SQL extensions, while an employee of IBM

Shore
A University of Wisconsin project that Prof. Carey co-led to create a persistent object system intended to serve a wide variety of target applications, including hardware and software CAD systems, pe

TSIMMIS
A pioneering Stanford University project on semistructured data integration that Prof. Li participated in while he was a Ph.D. student there.