Development of Large Scale Information Systems

Gio Wiederhold

Stanford University

Development of Large Scale Information Systems

Large scale? Þ Information?

Decision-making (DM)

Information Leverage

Information overload Data starvation

Large, Autonomy É Heterogeneity

Data + KnowledgeÞ Information

Managing Large Scale Problems

Mediation to Transform Data to Information

Functional Layer

Evolution of mediation

Central Solutions do not Scale

Domain-specific Mediation

Allocation Flexibility

Middleware is heterogenous too

Vision for Large Information Systems

DM support is disjoint