Table of Contents
Heterogeneous Information Management
Abstract
Section 1
Focus on Information Systems
Industry Needs Information
Data and Knowledge
Knowledge Manifestations
Information Leverage
Current State raises Issues
Digital Earth [Vice President Gore, 1998]
Information overload Data starvation
Components of GI Science
Support for Decision-Making
Issue: Link from resources to consumer?
Transforming Data to Information
Change in Supply vs Demand
Definition*
Section 2
Functional Layer
Function of Mediation
Making data relevant
Functions inside Mediation
Dealing With Heterogeneity
Mediation on the WWW
Wrappers
Selection for Quality
PPT Slide
Caching in Mediators
Articulation: Intersection
PPT Slide
Result modes for ranking
Ranking
Summarize to Reduce Load
Delivery to Customer
Flow in mediation
PPT Slide
Section 3
Evolution of mediation
Central Solutions do not Scale
Partition mediation by domain
PPT Slide
Allocation Flexibility
Interfaces
Current Technologies
Middleware
KQML KNOWLEDGE QUERY & MANIPULATION LANGUAGE
Section 4
Maintenance is good for you
PPT Slide
Systems with Mediators
Growth through Reuse
Linear O(n) Cost of Growth-- now O(n2)
A mediator is not just static software: Knowledge ages
Roles
Assigning maintenance responsibility
Section 5
Mediator Design Principle
I3 Vision [Dave Gunning, ARPA]
Section 6
Opportunities in Engineering
EON application [Mark Musen, SMI]
Dynamic Categorization [Wanda Pratt, SMI]
DynaCat: System Architecture
Output of DynaCat
Categorizer
Control Valve Sizing, Future
CommerceNet
F-22 IWSDB Phase 6
Projects at Stanford DB group
The TSIMMIS Project Ramana Yerneni, Yannis Papakonstantinou, ...
PPT Slide
PPT Slide
PPT Slide
PPT Slide
E-Commerce in the Digital Library
PPT Slide
PPT Slide
Environmental Restoration at INEL Undoing 50 years of messes ….
Mediation to Implement Feedback in Training David Maluf, Priya Panchapagesan, Ted Linden
PPT Slide
MIFT . Result .
Digital Libraries
Simulation services
SimQL: Simulation Access Service
Section (7) 8
Status of Mediation Technology
TSIMMIS Status
Coverage of Current DARPA I3 Efforts
E-money
Section 9
Research Topics
Getting there: Available Technology/Science
Fat versus thin mediators
IFIP note
Establishing Ontologies .
Large Ontologies?
Domains and Consistency .
An Ontology Algebra
Sample Operation: INTERSECTION
INTERSECTION support
Sample Intersections
Other Basic Operations
Features of an algebra
New Information Systems to support Decision Making
The Time is NOW
Section 10
Domain Specialization
New Role for Consultants
Industrial Needs Served
Vision for Large Information Systems
PPT Slide
The end
|