Distributed Communities on the Web Third International Workshop, DCW 2000, Quebec City, Canada, June 19-21, 2000, Proceedings /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kropf, Peter (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Babin, Gilbert (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Plaice, John (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Unger, Herwig (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2000.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2000.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1830
• Subjects: Computer communication systems.; Computer science.; Application software.; Artificial intelligence.; Information technology.; Business-Data processing.; Computers and civilization.; Computer Communication Networks.; Popular Computer Science.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Artificial Intelligence.; IT in Business.; Computers and Society.

Communities are groupings of distributed objects that are capable of com- nicating, directly or indirectly, through the medium of a shared context. To support communities on a wide scale will require developments at all levels of computing, from low-level communication protocols supporting transpare...