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17.08.99 The Web Operating System Towards Wide Area Ubiquitous Computing Joint work of P. Kropf, G. Babin, (University of Laval, Canada)J. Plaice (University of Sydney, Australia)H. Unger (University of Rostock, Germany)A. Mikler (University of North Texas, USA) S. Schubiger (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)O. Krone (Swisscom CT, Switzerland) Overview Motivation The WOS Approach Resources Warehouses Eductive Engine WOSNode, WOSpace Web Components (WebComs) Current Research Issues Related, and Future Work, Conclusion Motivation Success of the WWW is tremendous Why not using WWW as platform for ubiquitous computing ? Today: resources found on the Web are information only; interaction is limited Tomorrow: use WEB as a Service Space: “The network is the computer” Motivation (cont.) Motivation (cont.) Network Applications WWW, email, video Computational Applications number crunching, distributed simulation Virtual Entities classrooms, companies Knowledge based Applications data mining, databases Real Time Applications process control real-time multimedia The WOS Approach 5 Universities involved: Laval, Rostock, Texas, Sydney, Fribourg “Operating System” for the Web Runs on top of existing OS, Java Bringing the resource-richness of the Web to the user Bringing the computational potential of the Web to the user Distributed and versioned Web Operating System - Warehouses Web Operating System - Resources Web Operating System - Eductive Engines Web Operating System - WOS Node Web Operating System - WOSNet Web Operating System - Operation Web Operating System - Operation Web Operating System - Operation Web Operating System - Operation WebComponents (WebComs) Resource Representation Interaction [Schubiger, Krone] Based on data flow networks WebComs (cont.) Attribute schemes capture real world representations (concepts) e.g. files, programs, source-code,… are constructed by description set operations (union, intersection,…) an attribute scheme is either implici