RESEARCH INTERESTS

My main research interest spans from cross-enterprise system integration, cooperative information system and heterogeneous databases. The unifying theme of my research has been to provide transparent global access to heterogeneous, distributed autonomous information sources. Information sources could include services/applications on the Web, databases, multimedia systems or legacy applications.

My work on cross enterprise system integration center on providing business to business infrastructure that reduces the cost and complexity of data and application integration in WWW. The related projects in these areas are:

My secondary research goal is to provide technique and model for accurate and rapid retrieval of multimedia data (MDB). Information processing has shifted from textual data to include still images, video and audio data. This requires substantial changes in the way we build and manage databases. The list of issues that I am investigating are: