Distributed Communities on the Web

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XI

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2. Tutorial

   1. The Web Operating System — WOS

      • John Plaice, Herwig Unger

      Pages 1-1

3. Keynote Speaker I

   1. Creating an Electronic Commerce Device Which Promotes Universal Access: The KALI Project

      • Jacob Slonim, Theodore Chiasson, Carrie Gates

      Pages 2-12

   2. Collaboration in Communities

      1. AntWorld: A Collaborative Web Search Tool

         • Vladimir Meñkov, David J. Neu, Qin Shi

         Pages 13-22

      2. A Multimedia Session Manager Service for the Collaborative Browsing System

         • Sandro Rafaeli, David Hutchison

         Pages 23-33

   3. Business Communities

      1. Adaptive Portals with Wireless Components

         • Carolyn Watters, David Comeau

         Pages 34-44

      2. An Evaluation of Formalisms for Negotiations in E-commerce

         • Morad Benyoucef, Rudolf K. Keller

         Pages 45-54

   4. Managing Communities

      1. Building Intensional Communities Using Shared Contexts

         • John Plaice, Paul Swoboda, Ammar Alammar

         Pages 55-64

      2. DSM-Communities in the World-Wide Web

         • Peter Schulthess, Oliver Schirpf, Michael Schoettner, Moritz Wende

         Pages 65-73

      3. A Resource Classification System for the WOS

         • Simon Schubiger

         Pages 74-81

   5. Multidimensional Information Management

      1. Intensional Markup Language

         • William W. Wadge

         Pages 82-89

      2. Towards a Logical Basis for Modelling and Querying Multi-dimensional Databases

         • Mehmet A. Orgun

         Pages 90-99

      3. Multidimensional XML

         • Yannis Stavrakas, Manolis Gergatsoulis, Panos Rondogiannis

         Pages 100-109

   6. Communications and Communities

      1. Application Programming Interface for WOSP/WOSRP

         • Gilbert Babin, Hauke Coltzau, Markus Wulff, Simon Ruel

         Pages 110-121

      2. Message Chains and Disjunct Paths for Increasing Communication Performance in Large Networks

         • Markus Wulff, Peter Kropf, Herwig Unger

         Pages 122-132

      3. Using Corba in the Web Operating System

         • Oliver Krone, Alex Josef

         Pages 133-141

4. Keynote Speaker II

   1. Clusters, Servers, Thin Clients, and On-line Communities

      • Peter H. Beckman

      Pages 142-143

   2. Intensionality

      1. The GIPSY Architecture

         • Joey Paquet, Peter Kropf

         Pages 144-153

      2. Multidimensional Lucid: Design, Semantics and Implementation

         • John Plaice

         Pages 154-160

      3. Intensional High Performance Computing

         • Pierre Kuonen, Gilbert Babin, Nabil Abdennadher, Paul-Jean Cagnard

         Pages 161-170

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 transparent - cess to mobile objects, through to distributed operating systems, through to high-level programming models allowing complex interaction between objects. This workshop brought together researchers interested in the technical issues of supporting communities. This workshop was the third in the DCW series. The ?rst two, entitled D- tributed Computing on the Web, took place in 1998 and 1999 at the University of Rostock, with proceedings published by the University of Rostock Press. This year, the workshop also incorporated the ISLIP (International Symposium on Languages for Intensional Programming) symposium. The ISLIP symposia have taken place every year since 1988, and have led to two volumes published by World-Scienti?c (Intensional Programming I, 1995, and Intensional Progr- ming II, 2000). While the two conferences emerged from di?erent needs, their focus merged to such an extent that it became clear that a joint conference promised to o?er great opportunities.

• Collaboration
• Communications
• Digital Communities
• Distributed Systems
• Information Management
• Internet Computing
• Mobile Agents
• Multimedia
• Performance
• Quality of Service
• Quality of Service (QoS)
• Text
• classification
• learning
• semantics

• Department of Computer Science and Operations Research, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada

  Peter G. Kropf

• Department of Computer Science, Laval University, Sainte-Foy, Canada

  Gilbert Babin

• School of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

  John Plaice

• Department of Computer Science, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

  Herwig Unger

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