Birds of a Feather Session on the Intelligence Community Initiative in Massive Digital Data Systems To be held in Conjunction with the 1995 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data in the Crystal Room at The Fairmont Hotel, San Jose, California on Tuesday, 23 May 1995 from 7 pm to 9 pm ******************************* Massive Digital Data Systems (MDDS) will require effective management, retrieval, and integration of databases that may be heterogeneous. Achieving this concept of massive intelligence information systems will require new technologies and novel approaches for data management. While several advances have been made in database management technology, the complexity and the size of the database coupled with the unique needs of the Intelligence Community (IC) require the development of novel approaches. The MDDS Initiative has been started by the Community Management Staff (CMS) of the IC to identify the data management issues and challenges as well as to develop possible solutions for managing massive databases., The purpose of the Birds of a Feather Session is to provide an overview of the MDDS program, solicit input toward developing a testbed /framework for the initiative, and to have technical discussions on novel methods for managing massive databases. Tentative agenda for the session is as follows: 1. Overview of MDDS Initiative 2. Overview of MDDS Research Projects 3. Discussion on testbed/framework 4. Discussion on techniques for massive database management Information on the MDDS Initiative can be obtained from : http://www.nml.org/other_programs/mdds/mdds.html For more information contact: Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham K329, The MITRE Corporation, Burlington Road, Bedford, MA 01730 email: thura@mitre.org; Phone: 617-271-8873; Fax: 617-271-2352 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The dbworld alias reaches many people, and should only be used for messages of general interest to the database community. Requests to get on or off dbworld should go to listproc@cs.wisc.edu. to subscribe send subscribe dbworld Your Full Name to unsubscribe send unsubscribe dbworld to change your address send an unsubscribe request from the old address send a subscribe request from the new address to find out more options send help ------------------------------------------------------------------------FOOTER-