It covers all areas of computer technology including database management systems, networking, operating systems, and system management. This research is a collaboration with Professor Lee Chang and Professor Jerry Gao. Web search engines are important applications such as domain-specific search engine, and image or video search engine for the Web. The performance of Internet applications is a critical issue. One way to reduce the response times is to use content caching for web accesses.
Hierarchical content caching is investigated.
More than 90 percents of data are stored in plain texts such as web pages and plain text files. The issues are how to transform data in the Internet into an organized database and how to perform data mining for virtual Internet databases. We are also implementing databases for Internet applications. With the advent of gigabit networks, there have been dramatic changes in information contents. Information representations increasingly include multimedia data such as audio, video, images, animation, and graphics.