Amihai (Ami) Motro

Professor Department of Computer Science The Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering George Mason University Fairfax, Virginia 22030-4444 Office: Science and Technology Bldg. II, Room 455 Phone: 703 993-1665 E-mail:

Biographical Highlights B.Sc. in mathematics, Tel Aviv University, 1972 M.Sc. in computer science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1976 Ph.D. in computer and information science, University of Pennsylvania, 1981 Faculty, Computer Science Deptartment, University of Southern California, 1981-1990 Faculty, Department of Information and Software Engineering, George Mason University, 1990-2007 Faculty, Department of Computer Science, George Mason University, 2008- Alon (1985), Daphna (1990), Tal (1991)

Professional Areas of Interest Database management Information systems Information retrieval

Research Publications

• Intelligent information integration, virtual databases
• Cooperative user interfaces to databases
• Uncertainty, imprecision, incompleteness and inconsistency in databases
• Database knowledge &mdash discovery and application
• Information quality, integrity and security
• Research potpourri
• Books, proceedings, special issues and dissertations
• Et cetera

Professional Activities

• Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
• Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
• Member of the International Advisory Board and the Program Committee of FQAS 2006, Seventh International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems
• Member of the Program Committee of CleanDB, First International VLDB Workshop on Clean Databases (at VLDB 2006, 32nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases)
• Co-Chair of the Program Committee of NGITS 2006, Sixth International Conference on Next Generation Information Systems
• Member of the Program Committee of ECIS 2007, 15th European Conference on Information Systems
• Member of the Program Committee of EDBT 2008, 11th International Conference on Extending Database Technology
• Member of the Program Committee of Advanced Knowledge-based Systems (invited session of KES 08, 12th International Conference on Knowledge-based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems)

Recent Presentations

• Intelligent Methods in Database Integration, Keynote Lecture, FQAS 2000, Warsaw, Poland, October 2000
• Information Quality and Inconsistency, Organizzazione dei sistemi informativi aziendali, LUISS University, Rome, Italy, June 2000
• Automated Discovery of Content for Virtual Databases (and Related Results), ISE Department colloquium, April 2002

Recent Ph.D. Graduates Don Marks Using Constraints to Control Access to Sensitive Aggregates and to Enforce Multilevel Integrity Igor Rakov Data Quality and Its Use for Resolving Inconsistencies in Multidatabase Environments Philipp Anokhin A Comprehensive Approach to the Resolution of Inconsistencies in Multidatabase Environments

Research Assistants and Doctoral Students

• Jake Berlin (Recipient of ISE Outstanding PhD Student Award, 2003 and IT&E Outstanding Graduate Award, 2003)
  Automated Discovery of Content for Virtual Databases
• Aybar C. Acar
  Discovering Patterns in Large Collections of Queries
• Marcos Vieira
  Maintaining Privacy in Database Services

Courses CS-450: Database Concepts INFS-614: Database Management INFS-623: Classical and Web Information Retrieval -- Completely revised! - check new schedule of lectures INFS-760: Advanced Database Management INFS-797/IT-803: Information Integration and Interoperation INFT-867: Intelligent Databases Offered in Fall 2008

Practical Advice

• A note to graduate students preparing for the qualifying exam in databases
• A note to graduate students seeking assistantships
• GMU perpetual academic calendar (current year is type 3)

Photo Gallery Prince Edward Island, Canada, July 2001.