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SOFSEM '95: Theory and Practice of Informatics (SOFSEM 1995)

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The Information Systems of the future will be distributed, heterogeneous and open. They will require the integration of five key technologies — databases, multimedia, object orientation, artificial intelligence and telecommunications. This paper explains the contribution of these technologies to the vision of the future and how they can be integrated. Key technical challenges and open research issues will be discussed. A detailed case study from the healthcare domain is presented which demonstrates interoperability of databases, knowledge based techniques and telecommunications in an open, object-based distributed information system.

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Grimson, J. (1995). Distributed Information Systems. In: Bartosek, M., Staudek, J., Wiedermann, J. (eds) SOFSEM '95: Theory and Practice of Informatics. SOFSEM 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1012. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60609-2_7

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