Worldwide Computing and Its Applications

1. Front Matter

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2. Java and the emerging technology

   • Ken Urquhart

   Pages 1-6

3. Transcopyright: A simple legal arrangement for sharing, re-use, and republication of copyrighted material on the net

   • Theodor Holm Nelson

   Pages 7-14

4. Building secure and reliable network applications

   • Kenneth P. Birman

   Pages 15-28

5. HORB: Distributed execution of Java programs

   • Hirano Satoshi

   Pages 29-42

6. Performance of the messengers autonomous-objects-based system

   • Munehiro Fukuda, Lubomir F. Bic, Michael B. Dillencourt

   Pages 43-57

7. Engineering component-based systems with distributed object technology

   • Kurt Wallnau, Edwin Morris, Peter Feiler, Anthony Earl, Emile Litvak

   Pages 58-73

8. Local Class Name Space Facility for Worldwide Object-Oriented Distributed Systems Environment

   • Toshihiro Nishioka, Yoichi Hamazaki, Michiharu Tsukamoto

   Pages 74-89

9. A component-oriented architecture to design multimedia services on a distributed platform

   • L. Fuentes, J. M. Troya

   Pages 90-105

10. Teamwork via team plans in intelligent autonomous agent systems

    • Lawrence Cavedon, Anand Rao, Liz Sonenberg, Gil Tidhar

    Pages 106-121

11. WISH: A web information sharing system accessible via the WWW

    • Hiromi Mizuno, Hideyuki Fukuoka

    Pages 122-132

12. Organic programming for cooperative computation

    • Hideyuki Nakashima

    Pages 133-141

13. Emerging groupware successes in major corporations: Studies of adoption and adaptation

    • Jonathan Grudin, Leysia Palen

    Pages 142-153

14. An approach toward fits evaluation between organizational culture and groupware

    • Toshihiko Yamakami

    Pages 154-165

15. A realization of a reflection of personal information on distributed brainstorming environment

    • Kunihiko Fujita, Susumu Kunifuji

    Pages 166-181

16. A hybrid approach to multimedia database systems through integration of semantics and media-based search

    • Wen-Syan Li, K. Selçuk Candan, Kyoji Hirata, Yoshinori Hara

    Pages 182-197

17. The universal B-tree for multidimensional indexing: General concepts

    • Rudolf Bayer

    Pages 198-209

18. Spatial views and LOD-based access control in VRML-object databases

    • Masaki Kamiura, Hiroaki Oisol, Keishi Tajima, Katsumi Tanaka

    Pages 210-225

19. Metacomputing and data-intensive applications

    • Paul Messina

    Pages 226-236

20. Architectural issues of database systems in advanced computer networks

    • Shojiro Nishio, Masahiko Tsukamoto

    Pages 237-252

This book constitutes the strictly refereed post-conference proceedings of the International Conference on Worldwide Computing and Its Applications, WWCA'97, held in Tsukuba, Japan, in March 1997.
The volume presents 15 revised full papers selected from 50 submissions as well as 15 revised invited papers by leading researchers in this emerging area and two keynotes. The papers are organized in topical sections on distributed programming languages and systems, distributed object environments, cooperative computation, collaboration support Systems, collaborative media, novel distributed applications, Internet and protocols, distributed system platforms, mobile computing, and application gateways.

• Gateway
• Internet
• cooperative computation
• distributed object technologies
• distributed programming
• distributed systems
• internet protocols
• mobile computing
• programming
• programming language

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