Data Management In A Connected World: Essays Dedicated To Hartmut Wedekind On The Occasion Of His 70th Birthday Essays Dedicated To Hartmut Wedekind On The Occasion Of His 70th Birthday

Data management systems play the most crucial role in building large application s- tems. Since modern applications are no longer single monolithic software blocks but highly flexible and configurable collections of cooperative services, the data mana- ment layer also has to adapt to these new requirements. Therefore, within recent years, data management systems have faced a tremendous shift from the central management of individual records in a transactional way to a platform for data integration, fede- tion, search services, and data analysis. This book addresses these new issues in the area of data management from multiple perspectives, in the form of individual contributions, and it outlines future challenges in the context of data management. These contributions are dedicated to Prof. em. Dr. Dr. -Ing. E. h. Hartmut Wedekind on the occasion of his 70th birthday, and were (co-)authored by some of his academic descendants. Prof. Wedekind is one of the most prominent figures of the database management community in Germany, and he enjoys an excellent international reputation as well. Over the last 35 years he greatly contributed to making relational database technology a success. As far back as the early 1970s, he covered—as the first author in Germany— the state of the art concerning the relational model and related issues in two widely used textbooks “Datenbanksysteme I” and “Datenbanksysteme II”. Without him, the idea of modeling complex-structured real-world scenarios in a relational way would be far less developed by now. Among Prof. Front Matter....Pages - Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Databases: The Integrative Force in Cyberspace....Pages 3-16 Federating Location-Based Data Services....Pages 17-35 An Agent-Based Approach to Correctness in Databases....Pages 37-47 Front Matter....Pages 49-49 Thirty Years of Server Technology — From Transaction Processing to Web Services....Pages 51-65 Caching over the Entire User-to-Data Path in the Internet....Pages 67-89 Reweaving the Tapestry: Integrating Database and Messaging Systems in the Wake of New Middleware Technologies....Pages 91-110 Data Management Support for Notification Services....Pages 111-136 Search Support in Data Management Systems....Pages 137-157 Front Matter....Pages 159-159 Toward Automated Large-Scale Information Integration and Discovery....Pages 161-180 Component-Based Application Architecture for Enterprise Information Systems....Pages 181-200 Processes, Workflows, Web Service Flows: A Reconstruction....Pages 201-213 Pros and Cons of Distributed Workflow Execution Algorithms....Pages 215-234 Business-to-Business Integration Technology....Pages 235-254 Front Matter....Pages 255-255 Information Dissemination in Modern Banking Applications....Pages 257-276 An Intermediate Information System Forms Mutual Trust....Pages 277-292 Data Refinement in a Market Research Applications’ Data Production Process....Pages 293-314 Information Management in Distributed Healthcare Networks....Pages 315-334 Data Managment for Engineering Applications....Pages 335-356 Back Matter....Pages -

The role of data management becomes more and more crucial in a totally connected world. Having the right data at the right time at the right place is therefore one of the most challenging research issues we face in the coming years. This Festschrift volume is devoted to Hartmut Wedekind on the occasion of his 70th birthday and comprises a total of 18 articles discussing a broad spectrum of issues related to data management. All articles are (co-)authored by academic children and grandchildren of Hartmut Wedekind and therefore reflect the multifaceted selection of academic topics that he explored, discussed, and published on during his academic life.

All articles are clustered into four different parts, focusing on motivation and modeling issues, infrastructural services, application design, and finally different applications. The scope of the articles reaches from visionary illustrations of data management in a connected world through core database techniques in the context of database caching, notification services, etc., to the design and description of data-intensive applications.

The role of data management becomes more and more crucial in a totally connected world. Having the right data at the right time at the right place is therefore one of the most challenging research issues we face in the coming years. This Festschrift volume is devoted to Hartmut Wedekind on the occasion of his 70th birthday and comprises a total of 18 articles discussing a broad spectrum of issues related to data management. All articles are (co- )authored by academic children and grandchildren of Hartmut Wedekind and therefore reflect the multifaceted selection of academic topics that he explored, discussed, and published on during his academic life. All articles are clustered into four different parts, focusing on motivation and modeling issues, infrastructural services, application design, and finally different applications. The scope of the articles reaches from visionary illustrations of data management in a connected world through core database techniques in the context of database caching, notification services, etc., to the design and description of data-intensive applications