Redesigning the Web: from passive pages to coordinated agents in PageSpaces

Author

Ciancarini, Paolo ; Tolksdorf, Robert ; Vitali, Fabio ; Rossi, Davide ; Knoche, Andreas

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Bologna Univ., Italy

fYear

1997

fDate

9-11 Apr 1997

Firstpage

377

Lastpage

384

Abstract

Currently, the Web does not support distributed applications well. Existing approaches are oriented towards centralized applications at servers, or local programs within clients. To overcome this deficit, the PageSpace platform was designed for distributed, coordinated agents in the Web. We take a specific approach to coordinate agents in PageSpace applications, namely variants of coordination language Linda that support rules and services to guide their cooperation. This technology is integrated with the standard Web technology and the language Java. Several kinds of agents live in the PageSpace: user interface agents, personal home agents, the agents that implement applications, and the kernel agents of the platform. Within the architecture it is possible to support fault tolerance and mobile agents as well

Keywords

Internet; cooperative systems; object-oriented languages; open systems; parallel programming; software agents; Internet; Java language; PageSpace platform; World Wide Web; coordinated agents; coordination language Linda; fault tolerance; kernel agents; mobile agents; open distributed systems; passive pages; personal home agents; standard Web technology; user interface agents; Collaborative software; Databases; HTML; Information retrieval; Internet; Java; Kernel; Management information systems; Mobile agents; Web server;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Autonomous Decentralized Systems, 1997. Proceedings. ISADS 97., Third International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Berlin

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7783-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISADS.1997.590646

Filename

590646