Distributed Communities on the Web: 4th International Workshop, DCW 2002 Sydney, Australia, April 3-5, 2002, Revised Papers: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, cartea 2468

Open Problems in Distributed Communities.- Position Papers.- “The Medium” Is the Message.- A Middleware Architecture for Personalized Communities of Devices.- A General Purpose Model for Presence Awareness.- SecAdvise: A Security Mechanism Advisor.- Adaptive Networks.- Research on Reliable Communication in Real-Time Collaborative Designing Systems.- Efficient Connection Management for Web Applications.- QoS Performance Improvement for Web Applications.- An Efficient Algorithm for Application-Layer Anycasting.- Experimenting with Gnutella Communities.- Collaborative Systems.- The SmartPhone: Interactive Group Audio with Complementary Symbolic Control.- PIÑAS: Supporting a Community of Co-authors on the Web.- A Group-Based Time-Stamping Scheme for the Preservation of Group Intentions.- A User-Centred Consistency Model in Real-Time Collaborative Editing Systems.- Multi Agent Transactional Negotiation: Application to E-marketing.- A Rule-Driven Approach for Defining the Behaviour of Negotiating Software Agents.- Distributed Transaction Management in a Peer-to-Peer Process-Oriented Environment.- Languages for the Web.- Using XML Schemas to Create and Encode Interactive 3-D Audio Scenes for Multimedia and Virtual Reality Applications.- The Design of High-Level Database Access Method in a Web-Based 3D Object Authoring Tool.- Language Standardization for the Semantic Web: The Long Way from OIL to OWL.- Noema: A Metalanguage for Scripting Versionable Hypertexts.- Adaptive Distributed Systems.- Sharing Social Recommendations: Towards a Social Portal.- Enabling Technologies for Communities at Web Shops.- Modelling Service-Providing Location-Based E-communities and the Impact of User Mobility.- Client Migration in a Continuous Data Network.- Using Jini to Integrate HomeAutomation in a Distributed Software-System.

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