General overview

Mike Lynch, CEO and Founder of Autonomy, recently stated that “meaning-based computing is the way of the future as 85 per cent of information within enterprises is unstructured and that understanding this 'hidden' intelligence is at the heart of improving the way we interact with information”. Some of the most advanced use cases for such semantic computing today require reasoning about 10 billion RDF triples in less than 100 ms. These numbers originate from the telecom sector aiming at generating revenue streams through new context-sensitive and personalized mobile services. This is just one example of a general demand. A second equally important example is the Internet of the Future, which envisions an environment with billions of users, many billions of resources, trillions of services, and even more meta-data used to describe them. All of that will be integrated through a network of services. In order to establish meaning-based computing as a means to enable interoperability, it is important that semantic technologies scale to the size of such environments.

Keynote Speaker - Randy Shoup, Distinguished Architect in the eBay Marketplace Architecture Group

Real-World Strategies for Scaling
As the largest auction site in the world, eBay faces significant scaling challenges. With hundreds of millions of users worldwide, billions of page views a day, and petabytes of data in its systems, scalability is fundamental to every design decision. Through real-world experience, eBay has developed a set of strategies and patterns which address its scaling challenges while at the same time meet -- and trade off -- forces like availability, manageability, and latency.

In this keynote, eBay Distinguished Architect Randy Shoup will outline some of those strategies -- including partitioning, asynchrony, virtualization, and automation. Randy will further illustrate those strategies with examples from the eBay infrastructure that address issues familiar to the Semantic Computing community.

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    About the event

Special Session at the the second IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC2008)
Location: Santa Clara, CA, USA
Dates: August 4-7, 2008 (Specific date, TBA)
For registration and further information, please refer to the official ICSC2008 website.