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The working group Databases and Information Systems is part of the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik.

The overriding long-term goal is to develop rigorous service-quality guarantees for Internet-based information systems, comprising provably correct behavior, predictably acceptable response times, very high availability with failure masking, and satisfactory result quality for various kinds of information search.

The current focus is on:

• the automatic organization and effective and efficient search of semistructured data in intranets, digital libraries, federations of deep-web portals and scientific data repositories, as well as
• the self-organization and self-optimization of large peer-to-peer systems, with applications in the areas of workflow management and search engines.

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