AALBORG UNIVERSITET
The Center for Data-Intensive Systems (DAISY) is the unit from Aalborg Universitet participating in the MIRACLE Project.
Aalborg Universitet is a Danish public university. The university's core business is education, research, and innovation within the humanities and the social, technical, medical, and natural sciences. The university has approximately 14,000 students and 2,000 employees. Some 5,500 students are enrolled in the Faculties of Engineering, Science and Medicine.
The Center for Data-Intensive Systems (DAISY) itself belongs to Aalborg's Department of Computer Science and currently has some 35 members of staff. The Center embodies quite extensive experience with the design, prototyping, and testing of data-intensive systems. DAISY maintains an evolving portfolio of externally funded international and national research projects that includes several EU projects. Professor Christian S. Jensen (IEEE Fellow) directs the research at DAISY with Professor Torben Bach Pedersen as co-director. The staff has conducted research in the area of data-intensive systems, and recent evaluations rank these activities at the highest level worldwide. In particular, DAISY embodies extensive experience with technologies such as service-oriented architectures, data streams, temporal data management, spatio-temporal data management, mobile and distributed system architecture, data warehousing, data mining, and business intelligence, Web-based systems, and publish-subscribe functionality.
AAU's Contributions
In the MIRACLE Project, AAU's main contribution consists of the development of an efficient and scalable data warehouse solution that allows collecting and analysing data (including micro-requests, consumption data, and contract/negotiation information). Furthermore, AAU helps with the development of data warehouse technology for the tight and efficient integration of forecasting data with other data.
Key personnel
Aalborg's team is led by Prof. Christian S. Jensen, who has already authored and co-authored more than 200 scientific papers and regularly serves as a member of various conference committees, and by Professor Torben Bach Pedersen, who is the head of the Ph.D. program in Computer Science and Engineering at Aalborg University and conducts intensive research in the broad area of Business Intelligence (BI), including data warehousing (DW), On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP), and data mining.