The Mathematics of Informational Coding, Extraction and Distribution

Sponsored by the Office of Naval Research and the Department of Energy

In the last decade, considerable engineering progress has been made in the technology of large-scale information systems. We are now at the point where ambitious deployments of global information networks are soon to be realized but serious problems remain in the areas of scalability, modeling and applications. the goal of this workshop is to bring together experts in various areas of mathematical and practical information theory and modeling to formulate the problems, explore new analytic methods and exchange ideas. We plan to address applications areas such as ``data mining", compression, database theory and machine learning, with special attention to the interactions between these areas from the analytical and mathematical points of view. Ideally, the workshop will devote half time to dissemination of new technical results and half time to the formulation of new paradigms and problems for future research.