| Faculty name: | Renee Miller |
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| Research area: | Databases |
| Campus address: | Bahen 7270 |
| Campus phone: | (416) 946-3621 |
| Email address: |
miller [at] cs.toronto.edu
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| Number of students: | 1 |
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In the new era of business technology, transforming massive amounts of data into high-quality business information is essential. To achieve this, two non-overlapping worlds need to be aligned: the Information Technology (IT) world, represented by an organization's operational data sources, and the business world, portrayed by the business plans, strategies and goals that an organization aspires to fulfill. Current business intelligence solutions tend to adopt a two phase approach to solve this problem, where the integration and cleansing of data generally precedes the process of imparting a business semantics to it. In our work, we explore a radically different approach by using domain knowledge to drive the transformation of enterprise operational data into business information.
The goal of this summer project is to implement a general mapping framework that can be used to rewrite incomplete business mappings into specifications that are vivid and complete with respect to the user's assumed domain knowledge (e.g. preference rules, business queries, etc.). This project will give students the possibility of learning about cutting-edge technologies in database management systems, such as those concerning the integration of data to support Business Intelligence applications.