Data Management Research Laboratory

This is dmrl.usc.edu
at the University of Southern California's
Integrated Media Systems Center.

The research activities at the USC Data Management Research Lab (DMRL) focus on two broad research areas:

  • Streaming Media: The design, implementation and evaluation of scalable real-time streaming architectures. We focus on the challenges presented in both high quality, high bandwidth media types and large-scale, distributed peer-to-peer streaming.
  • Web Services and Database Integration: The design and implementation of web service architectures and their integration with web sources (especially geo-spatial information) and databases.

2007 News and Events

[Events of 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003.]

November 12, 2007: Beomjoo Seo passed his PhD defense exam today. Congratulations! His dissertation is entitled "Analysis of Visibility Algorithms for Highly Dynamic Virtual Environments."

November 12, 2007: Yuling Hsueh passed her qualifying exam today. Congratulations! Her forthcoming dissertation will focus on "Partition-based Lazy Updates for Continuous Queries over Moving Objects."

My group has openings for PhD students and post-doc researchers in the areas of multimedia systems in my new laboratory at the National University of Singapore. If you are interested please send me email for more details.

January 30-31, 2008: I will be co-chairing the Fifteenth Annual Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN 2008) conference to be held in San Jose, California (part of the Electronic Imaging Symposium).

December 10-12, 2007: We will demonstrate our Scalable Integrated Environment at the IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM 2007), to be held in Taichung, Taiwan. SIE has been funded in part by the Pratt&Whitney Institute for Collaborative Engineering (PWICE).

September 24-29, 2007: The ACM Multimedia 2007 conference will be held Augsburg, Germany. I am the proceedings chair.

September 3, 2007: Yuling Hsueh has received a travel grant from the Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) program to present her paper entitled "Partition-Based Lazy Updates for Continuous Queries over Moving Objects" at the ACM GIS 2007 conference in Seattle, WA.

September 1, 2007: I have become a Senior Member of the IEEE.

August 31, 2007: I am the Workshop Chair of the 9th IEEE International Symposium on A WORLD of WIRELESS, MOBILE, and MULTIMEDIA NETWORKS (WoWMoM 2008). The symposium will be held on June 23-27, 2008 in Newport Beach/Irvine, California, USA.

August 31, 2007: We have been awarded a grant by the National Research Foundation (NRF) entitled "Events in the World: Developing & Using Interactive Digital Media for Multimodal Discourse Analysis.'' The grant is part of the IDM R&D Programme of the Media Development Agency. The project PI is Prof. Kay O'Halloran from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. The project is part of the Multimodal Analysis Lab.

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August 31, 2007: I am a collaborator on a grant by the National Research Foundation (NRF) entitled "New Music and the Networked Ensemble.'' The grant is part of the IDM R&D Programme of the Media Development Agency. The project PI is Prof. Lonce Wyse from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

August 22, 2007: Wei-shinn is now an Assistant Professor with the Computer Science and Software Engineering department at the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering at Auburn University, Alabama. Congratulations!

August 14, 2007: I am teaching the CS5248: Systems Support for Continuous Media course this fall semester.

August 14, 2007: I am co-teaching the CS3230: Design and Analysis of Algorithms course this fall semester.

July 1, 2007: BabbleStream, Inc. has received an NSF Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award (SBIR-0712645). The grant is entitled "SBIR Phase I: Peertalk and Gametalk Based on Extended ACTIVE Platform." BabbleStream, Inc., is a spin-off company from USC to commercialize our peer-to-peer streaming technology.

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May 8, 2007: Min Qin passed his PhD defense exam today. Congratulations! His dissertation is entitled "Supporting Multimedia Streaming Among Mobile Ad-hoc Peers with Link Availability Prediction."

May 7, 2007: Haojun Wang passed his qualifying exam today. Congratulations! His forthcoming dissertation will focus on "Location-based Query Processing on Moving Objects in Road Networks."

May 7, 2007: Leslie S. Liu passed his PhD defense exam today. Congratulations! His dissertation is entitled "Scalable Peer-to-Peer Streaming Networks for Interactive Applications."

April 13, 2007: We demonstrated our Scalable Integrated Environment as part of the board meeting of the Pratt&Whitney Institute for Collaborative Engineering (PWICE). The board meeting and demonstration were held at the headquarter of Korean Air near Gimpo Airport, Seoul, South Korea.

January 31-February 1, 2007: I will be co-chairing the Fourteenth Annual Multimedia Computing and Networking (MMCN '07) conference to be held in San Jose, California (part of the Electronic Imaging symposium). The keynote speaker will be Ramesh Sarukkai, Head, Video Search Engineering at Yahoo!. His talk will be on "Web Video Search and the Emergence of Socially Immersive Media."

January 30, 2007: Wei-Shinn Ku passed his PhD defense exam today. Congratulations! His dissertation is entitled "Location-based Spatial Queries with Data Sharing in Mobile Environments."

January 9-12, 2007: The The International MultiMedia Modeling Conference (MMM 2007) will be held at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. I was one of the area chairs of the conference.


Our contact information is as follows:

Roger Zimmermann
Integrated Media Systems Center
University of Southern California
3737 Watt Way
Powell Hall of Engineering, PHE 306
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0274
USA

Telephone: (213) 740-7654
Fax: (213) 740-5807
E-mail: rzimmerm@imsc.usc.edu

Office on campus: PHE 414 (Powell Hall of Engineering)


Sponsors

This research is funded in part by NSF grants EEC-9529152 (the Integrated Media Systems Center, an NSF Engineering Research Center), two NSF ITR grants, see awards CMS-0219463 and IIS-0082826. We have also received an NSF award from the program for Advancing Collaborative and Intelligent Systems and their Societal Implications, IIS-0534761. We have received equipment gifts from Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Raptor Networks Technology, and Sun Microsystems.

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