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...

Table of Contents:

• Tutorial
• The Web Operating System - WOS
• Keynote Speaker I
• Creating an Electronic Commerce Device Which Promotes Universal Access: The KALI Project
• AntWorld: A Collaborative Web Search Tool
• A Multimedia Session Manager Service for the Collaborative Browsing System
• Adaptive Portals with Wireless Components
• An Evaluation of Formalisms for Negotiations in E-commerce
• Building Intensional Communities Using Shared Contexts
• DSM-Communities in the World-Wide Web
• A Resource Classification System for the WOS
• Intensional Markup Language
• Towards a Logical Basis for Modelling and Querying Multi-dimensional Databases
• Multidimensional XML
• Application Programming Interface for WOSP/WOSRP
• Message Chains and Disjunct Paths for Increasing Communication Performance in Large Networks
• Using Corba in the Web Operating System
• Keynote Speaker II
• Clusters, Servers, Thin Clients, and On-line Communities
• The GIPSY Architecture
• Multidimensional Lucid: Design, Semantics and Implementation
• Intensional High Performance Computing
• Java Mobile Agents Implementing On-line Algorithms to Improve the QoS of a 3D Distributed Virtual Environment
• IDEAL: An Integrated Distributed Environment for Asynchronous Learning
• Design and Implementation of a Distributed Agent Delivery System.