Distributed Communities on the Web: 4th International Workshop, DCW 2002 Sydney, Australia, April 3–5, 2002 Revised Papers

✍ Scribed by John Plaice, Paul Swoboda, Jacob Slonim, Michael McAllister (auth.), John Plaice, Peter G. Kropf, Peter Schulthess, Jacob Slonim (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 312
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Distributed Communities on the Web, DCW 2002, held in Sydney, Australia in April 2002.
The 25 revised full papers presented together with an introductory overview and outline of the field were carefully reviewed and selected from 59 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on adaptive networks, collaborative systems, languages for the Web, and adaptive distributed systems.

✦ Table of Contents

Open Problems in Distributed Communities....Pages 1-9
“The Medium” Is the Message....Pages 10-14
A Middleware Architecture for Personalized Communities of Devices....Pages 15-23
A General Purpose Model for Presence Awareness....Pages 24-34
SecAdvise: A Security Mechanism Advisor....Pages 35-41
Research on Reliable Communication in Real-Time Collaborative Designing Systems....Pages 42-53
Efficient Connection Management for Web Applications....Pages 54-63
QoS Performance Improvement for Web Applications....Pages 64-73
An Efficient Algorithm for Application-Layer Anycasting....Pages 74-83
Experimenting with Gnutella Communities....Pages 84-99
The SmartPhone: Interactive Group Audio with Complementary Symbolic Control....Pages 100-112
PIÑAS: Supporting a Community of Co-authors on the Web....Pages 113-124
A Group-Based Time-Stamping Scheme for the Preservation of Group Intentions....Pages 125-137
A User-Centred Consistency Model in Real-Time Collaborative Editing Systems....Pages 138-150
Multi Agent Transactional Negotiation: Application to E-marketing....Pages 151-164
A Rule-Driven Approach for Defining the Behaviour of Negotiating Software Agents....Pages 165-181
Distributed Transaction Management in a Peer-to-Peer Process-Oriented Environment....Pages 182-192
Using XML Schemas to Create and Encode Interactive 3-D Audio Scenes for Multimedia and Virtual Reality Applications....Pages 193-203
The Design of High-Level Database Access Method in a Web-Based 3D Object Authoring Tool....Pages 204-214
Language Standardization for the Semantic Web: The Long Way from OIL to OWL....Pages 215-227
Noema: A Metalanguage for Scripting Versionable Hypertexts....Pages 228-239
Sharing Social Recommendations: Towards a Social Portal....Pages 240-252
Enabling Technologies for Communities at Web Shops....Pages 253-265
Modelling Service-Providing Location-Based E-communities and the Impact of User Mobility....Pages 266-277
Client Migration in a Continuous Data Network....Pages 278-290
Using Jini to Integrate Home Automation in a Distributed Software-System....Pages 291-303

✦ Subjects

Computers and Society