The Future of Information Integration

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The Future of Information Integration

• WebDB 2005 Panel
• Alon Halevy -- Moderator

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Agenda

• What are (some) of the young stars thinking
  about?
• What the old fogies (in the audience) have to
  say.
• Predict the future
• With high accuracy, if possible.

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Panelists

• Kevin Chang (UIUC)
• Juliana Freire (U. of Utah)
• Zack Ives (U. Penn)
• Chen Li (UC Irvine)
• Sergey Melnik (U. of Redmond, WA)

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A Few Questions

• EII vs. WII? How different are they?
• Web Information Integration (WII)
• Google Yahoo will do it. Lets retire now.
• Can virtual integration work on the web?
• WII EII if and only if entity resolution.
• The rest doesnt matter.
• Were missing the point
• So far weve done only querying.
• Need update, richer semantic modeling, model
  management.