28th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases

[Mr. FoRK]

My personal interest lies in here somewhere...
"..an increasing desire for intelligent agents to cope with information
overload as all information becomes available all the time"

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http://www.cs.ust.hk/vldb2002/program-info/keynotes.html

TUESDAY, 20 AUGUST 2002

Kowloon Shangri-La Hotel
August 20-23, 2002
Hong Kong, China

Data Routing Rather than Databases: The Meaning of the Next Wave of the Web
Revolution to Data Management

Adam Bosworth
BEA Systems, U.S.A.


ABSTRACT
What is going to be as important in the next 20 years as relational
databases were in the prior 20 years is the management of self-describing
extensible messages. The net is undergoing a profound change as it moves
from an entirely pull-oriented model into a push model. This latter model is
far more biological in nature with an increasing amount of information
flowing asynchronously through the system to form an InformationBus. The key
challenges for the next 20 years will be storing, routing, querying,
filtering, managing, and interacting with this bus in a manner that doesn't
lead to total systems degradation. Predictive intelligent filtering and
rules engines will become more important than querying.

Driving factors for this revolution will be the need for push for portable
devices due to their poor latency and intermittent communication, an
increasing demand for timely information on fully connected devices, a huge
rise in application to application integration through asynchronous
messaging based on web services and a concomitant requirement for an
entirely new type of message broker, and an increasing desire for
intelligent agents to cope with information overload as all information
becomes available all the time. The key enabling technology will be XML
messages and the various technologies that will develop for handling XML
ranging from transformation to compression to indexing to storage to
programming languages.