What are real world applications of Intelligent Databases?
According to the Wikipedia entry Intelligent database, the seminal work was the 1989 book, Intelligent Databases: Object-Oriented, Deductive Hypermedia Technologies, byKamran Parsaye, Mark H. Chignell, Setrag Khoshafian, and Harry K. T. Wong.
And a search of Google Scholar, for Intelligent Databases: Object-Oriented, Deductive Hypermedia Technologies, revealed the 2015 book, The CIO’s Guide to Oracle Products and Solutions:
Over two decades ago, Kamran Parsaye (1990) coined the term intelligent databases. The goal of intelligent databases is to be able to manage information in a natural way, making the information stored within these databases easy to store, access, and use. The prototypical intelligent database would have some robust requirements. It would need to provide some high-level tools for data analysis, discovery, and integrity control. These tools would be used to allow users not only to extract knowledge from databases, but also to apply knowledge to data. So far, it is not possible to scan through the pages of a database as easily as it is to ?ip through the pages of a book. In order for the label intelligent database to be valid, this feature is necessary. Users should be able to retrieve information from a computerized database as easily as they can get from a helpful human expert. Finally, an intelligent database must be able to retrieve knowledge as opposed to data. To do this, it needs to use inferencing capabilities to determine what a user needs to know.
The only one of the original authors of the 1989 book, Intelligent Databases, still publishing is Mark Chignell, principal at vocalage.com, as well as “Visiting Scientist at the IBM Centre for Advanced Studies”. This suggests to me that the current business use cases for the IBM Watson Ecosystem may be real world examples of “intelligent databases”.
I suggest the best source of information on this topic will be the upcoming 21st International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2016). The tables of contents of the proceedings from past conferences are available at dblp: NLDB.
See also my Quora answers to: