Examples of advanced services
Monday, March 08, 2010
11:27 AM
Examples of advanced services
Continuous queries: track some specific data as it arrives, and be able to summarize it instantly upon request, e.g., stock market behavior, posts to social networks. Application: business decision support. 
Demographic profiling: based upon one identity indicator (e.g., a web cookie), return the potential demographic profile of the user based upon past interactions with "bugged" sites.  Application: targeted advertising. 
Location-aware search: based upon some concept of the location of a user, sort search matches into order of distance from that location. Application: end-user support. 