Innovative Internet Computing Systems: Second International Workshop, IICS 2002, Kuhlungsborn, Germany, June 20-22, 2002: Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

✍ Scribed by Herwig Unger (editor), Thomas Boehme (editor), Armin Mikler (editor)

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 255
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

administrativemattersoftheworkshop.Wewishtoacknowledgethesubstantial helpprovidedbyoursponsors:theUniversityofRostockandtheTKKTechniker KrankenkasseRostock. We hope all participants enjoyed a successful workshop, made a lot of new contacts,held fruitful discussions helping to solvethe actualresearchproblems, and had a pleasant stay on the coast of the Baltic Sea. Last but not least we 2 hope to see you again at the third I CS conference in 2003, which will be held in the Leipzig area in the heart of Germany.

✦ Table of Contents

Innovative Internet Computing Systems
Preface
Organization
Table of Contents
Living Hypertext - Web Retrieval Techniques
Introduction
{sl Living Documents }
Towards a Micro Server Architecture
Case Study: Information Retrieval Using {sl Living Documents }
Case Study
Implementing {sl Living Documents }
Distributed Information Retrieval Using {sl Living Documents }
Topic Distillation with {sl Living Documents }
Smider - The Principal Procedure
An Extension of Kleinberg's Idea
Two Different Views on Smider
Related Work
Conclusion
References
Automatic Analysis of Large Text Corpora - A Contribution to Structuring WEB Communities
1 Introduction
2 Analysis of Large Text Corpora
3 Collocations
4 Relations Represented by Collocations
5 Analyzing a Community
6 Discussion and Outlook
References
Appendix: System Architecture Diagram
A Data Mining Architecture for Distributed Environments
1 Introduction
2 Related Work
3 Design Rationale
3.1 Data Sources
3.2 Multiple Results
3.3 Technological Issues
3.4 Security
3.5 Cost Effectivness
4 Distributed Data Mining Architecture
4.1 Communication Subsystem
4.2 Mining Subsystem
4.3 Analyzing Subsystem
4.4 Database Subsystem
5 Performance Evaluation
5.1 Result of Experiment
6 Conclusion and Future Work
References
Collaborative Highlighting for Real-Time Group Editors]
Introduction
User Interface Design
Consistency Maintenance
Divergence
Intention Violation
Flexible Undo Solution
Conclusions
References
Extending the Modeling Efficiency of the UML Activity Diagram for the Design of Distributed Systems
1 Introduction
2 The Activity Diagram of the UML
3 Colored Activity Diagram
3.1 Semantics and Notation
3.2 Colored Action
3.3 Transition
3.4 OR-Split
3.5 OR-Join
3.6 AND-Split
3.7 AND-Join (Syncronization)
3.8 Start and End States
4 Time Intervals
5 Transformation of Colored Activity Diagrams into High Level Petri Nets
5.1 Transforation Rules
6 Example
7 Conclusion
References
An XML Knowledge Base System for Scheduling Problems
1 Introduction
2 Problem Description
3 Web System Architecture and Functionalities
4 XML Specification Primitives
References
Compressibility as a Measure of Local Coherence in Web Graphs
Introduction
Local Coherence
Compressibility
The Find-Reference Compression Algorithm
Further Work
References
On the Spectrum and Structure of Internet Topology Graohs
1 Introduction
1.1 Related Work: Topology Models and Generators
1.2 Topology Data: Real and Synthetic
1.3 Outline
2 The Normalized Laplacian Spectrum
2.1 Alo wer bound on the multiplicity of eigenvalue 1
3 A New Structural Classification of AS Nodes
3.1 Physical Interpretation
4 Statistics and Comparisons
4.1 Methodology
4.2 Evolution of AS Graphs
4.3 Comparison to Inet Graphs
4.4 New Power-Laws and First Steps Towards a Hybrid Model
5 Conclusions and Future Work
References
Characterizing the Citation Graph as a Self-Organizing Networked Information Space
Introduction
Main Results
Measurements on the Citation Graph
Building the Citation Graph
Degree Distributions
Diameter
Reachability and Connected Components
Weakly Connected Components
Strongly Connected Components
Biconnected Components
Does Connectivity Depend on Some Key Articles?
Discussion
References
Characterization and Management of Dynamical Behavior in a System with Mobile Components
Motivation
Dynamical Behavior
Aspects of Dynamical Behavior
The Dynamics of MAS Components
Discussion of Implications: Dynamic Domain Maps
Application of Dynamic Domain Maps
Summary and Outlook
References
Ergotracer: An Internet User Behaviour Tracer
Introduction
Related Work and Design Decisions
Ergotracer at Work
An Overview
Some Technical Details
Privacy and Security Issues
Possible Uses
Conclusions
Acknowledgments
References
A Friendly Peer-to-Peer File Sharing System with Profit but without Copy Protection
1 Motivation and Introduction
2 The Standard Model of IPMP
3 Arguments against the IPMP Model
4 An Alternative Security Model
5 The Friendly Peer-to-Peer File-Sharing System
5.1 Involved Components and Persons
5.2 The Unsealed Envelope - File Format for Friendly File Sharing
5.3 Protocols and Interfaces
6 Conclusion
References
A Decentral Library for Scientific Articles
Introduction
Related Projects and the Concept of the AWeb
Related Projects
The New Concepts of the AWeb
The AWeb Middelware
The Library Tool in Detail
The Ping Module
The Search Module
The Community Graph Editor
The Search Interface
The Document Interface
The URL Verifying Module
Conclusion
References
Optimisation of Distributed Communities Using Cooperative Strategies
Introduction
Simulating Communities
Evaluation of Optimisation Algorithms
The Wanderer Algorithm
Variations of the Wanderer Algorithm
Share Category
Merge Category
Mixed Category
Discussion
Acknowledgements
References
Proven IP Network Services: From End-User to Router and vice versa
1 Introduction - The Expectations of End-Users
2 Applications - The Centre of the QoS Offer
2.1 Application Requirements
2.2 End-Users Expectations
3 Network Services - The Network Operator's Offer
3.1 Network Services
3.2 The Service Level Specification (SLS)
3.3 Mapping between Application And Network Offer
4 Traffic Classes - Engineering the IP Quality of Service
4.1 Router Capabilities
4.2 Traffic Classes and Proling
4.3 Dependencies between Router Mechanisms and Network Parameters
5 Measurements - The Proof Technique at Network Level
5.1 Round-Trip- vs. One-Way-Measurements
5.2 Passive and Active Measurements
5.3 Measurement Techniques within the AQUILA Trial Platform
6 Summary and Outlook - The Next Steps in the AQUILA Project
References
Mobility Support for Replicated Real-Time Applications
1 Introduction
2 Related Work
3 Pocket DreamTeam
3.1 Replication in a Stationary Environment
3.2 Replication in a Mobile Environment
3.3 Joining a Session
3.4 The Role of the Proxy
3.5 Consistency
3.6 Implementation Issues
3.7 Testing Environment and Sample Application
4 Conclusion and Future Work
References
Empirical Study of VBR Traffic Smoothing in Wireless Environment
Introduction
Motivation
Related Works
Empirical VBR Process
Characteristics of Compressed Stream
Creation of Stream File
Smoothing of Empirical Process
Experiment
Environment Setup
Result of Experiment
Conclusion
References
Compiling Rule-Based Agents for Distributed Databases
1 Introduction
2 Related Work
3 Integrity Rules for Spatial Objects
4 Insrting Integrity Rules into Local Agents
5 Implementation
6 Conclusion
References
A Formal Framework for E-Barter Based on Microeconomic Theory and Process Algebras
Introduction
Preliminaries
An Informal Presentation of E-Barter Systems
Formalizing Agents and Markets
Conclusions and Future Work
References
Peer-to-Peer beyond File Sharing
1 Introduction
2 Case Study Music Industry
2.1 System Architectures
2.2 Business Model and Value Chain
2.3 System Dynamics
2.4 Peer-to-Peer as New Architecture for Collaboration - A Brief Discussion
3 Design of Peer-to-Peer Services
3.1 Media
3.2 Media Architectures
3.3 Virtual Communities as Socio-Economic Peer-to-Peer Structures
3.4 Service Design
4 Concluding Remarks
Acknowledgements
References
Author Index