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Members of the Database Research Group have
active interests in many mainstream database research.
Currently, the thrust is in the following areas: data mining
and data warehousing, Internet information and resource
discovery, real-time database systems, digital library, image
databases.
A number of projects of this group have been funded by
earmark grants from the Hong Kong Research Grant Council.
Besides engaging in basic research which lead to publications
in international conferences and journals, members of the
group have developed experimental systems to verify research
ideas. Systems that have been developed recently include
Octopus, a Chinese Internet Search Engine; MILK, an Web
document database; and WDB, a Web database publishing system.
Members have also been very active in technology transfer
contributing to the advancement in local industry. Most
recently, the architecture design of the Directory Enquiry
System for Hong Kong Telecom was developed by members of this
group.
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