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Contemporary society relies heavily upon the massive amount of information connected to each other via the Internet. Social progress will depend upon the establishment and continuous revision of technologies to enable the rapid and accurate transmission of data, and technologies to allow a quick search of the massive volume of data to retrieve required information in a timely manner. For this reason, we will conduct fundamental research on database, information retrieval, privacy protection, Web information systems, and data mining. We also conduct application-oriented research such as data market, scientific data management, utilization of scholarly data, and geographic information systems, in cooperation with domain experts.