Federation over the Web International Workshop, Dagstuhl Castle,
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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Klaus P. Jantke Aran Lunzer Nicolas Spyratos Yuzuru Tanaka (Eds.)
Federation over the Web International Workshop Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, May 1-6, 2005 Revised Selected Papers
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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Klaus P. Jantke FIT Leipzig, Forschungsinstitut für InformationsTechnologien Postfach 30 11 66, 04251 Leipzig, Germany E-mail: [email protected] Aran Lunzer Yuzuru Tanaka Hokkaido University, Meme Media Laboratory North 13 West 8, Sapporo 060-8628, Japan E-mail: {aran,tanaka}@meme.hokudai.ac.jp Nicolas Spyratos Université Paris-Sud, Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique LRI-Bât. 490, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France E-mail: [email protected]
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Preface
The lives of people all around the world, especially in industrialized nations, continue to be changed by the presence and growth of the Internet. Its influence is felt at scales ranging from private lifestyles to national economies, boosting the pace at which modern information and communication technologies influence personal choices along with business processes and scientific endeavors. In addition to its billions of HTML pages, the Web can now be seen as an open repository of computing resources. These resources provide access to computational services as well as data repositories, through a rapidly growing variety of Web applications and Web services. However, people’s usage of all these resources barely scratches the surface of the possibilities that such richness should offer. One simple reason is that, given the variety of information available and the rate at which it is being extended, it is difficult to keep up with the range of resources relevant to one’s interests. Another reason is that resources are offered in a bewildering variety of formats and styles, so that many resou
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