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Los Angeles (LA) Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Technical Activity Committee on Artificial Intelligence (TACART)

             TACART

TOPIC:       Mediators and Agents for Integrating and
               Managing Data from Internet Sources

SPEAKER:     Prof. Craig A. Knoblock
             University of Southern California 
             Information Sciences Institute (ISI)

DATE:        15 October 1997 (Wednesday night)

TIME:        The talk will begin at 7:30.

PLACE:       Loyola Marymount University, Pereira Hall 22.
             LMU is located at Loyola Blvd. and 80th Street in
             Westchester. From the 405, take the Manchester exit
             and proceed west to Loyola Blvd.  Turn north, and
             continue until you enter the LMU campus.  Ask the
             guard for directions to Pereira Hall. Parking is free.

ABSTRACT:    The rise of hyperlinked networks has made a wealth
             of data readily available. However, the Web's browsing
             paradigm does not readily support retrieving, integrating,
             and managing data from multiple sites.  Today, the only
             way to integrate the huge amount of available data is to
             build specialized applications, which are time-consuming
             and costly to build, and difficult to maintain.  We are
             addressing this problem by developing the technology and
             tools for rapidly constructing mediators and agents to
             extract, integrate, and manage data from Web sources.
             We are developing the tools to construct wrappers that
             make Web sources look like databases, and we are also
             developing the mediator and agent technologies required
             to dynamically and efficiently integrate and manage
             Web-based sources.  The resulting system, which we call
             Ariadne, will make it fast and cheap to build new 
             applications from existing Web sources.

BIOGRAPHY:   CRAIG KNOBLOCK is a Project Leader at ISI and a Research
             Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department 
             at USC. He is also on the faculty of the Integrated Media
             Systems Center, which is an NSF Engineering Research Center
             at USC. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the
             Carnegie Mellon University in 1991 and joined USC that
             year. His current research interests include information
             gathering and knowledge discovery.  For the last six years 
             he has been working on the problem of information integration
             from heterogeneous data sources.  He is one of the primary
             architects of the SIMS information mediator, which builds on
             work in planning, machine learning, and knowledge representation.

DINNER:      No dinner is planned.  No social activities are planned.
NEWSGROUPS:  Announced in comp.ai, la.seminars, ca.seminars.
HOMEPAGE:    http://kecksvr.eng.lmu.edu/TACART.html (under repair).
CONTACTS:    L. Andrew Campbell campbell@aero.org (310) 336-8642 or
             Program Chair Barney Toma tomab@ecn.com (310) 323-8451.
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