An architecture for active hypertext on distributed systems

The combination of hypertext and distributed systems technologies enhances effectiveness in information management and dissemination. An architecture which integrates these technologies is presented, the issues that influenced its design are cited, and its realization is outlined. Easy and graceful integration of new applications in the framework is supported by the generic and extensible character of the architecture. The proposed architecture caters for activity; event-driven computations constantly cheek for the preservation of consistency and rigidly enforce the behavior specified by the application programmer. A production rule formalism is used to customize the structure of the hypergraph and define additional constraints on the semantics of the server operations.<>