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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 3847)
Part of the book sub series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI)
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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 in?uence is felt at scales ranging from private lifestyles to national economies, boosting thepaceatwhichmoderninformationandcommunicationtechnologiesin?uence personal choices along with business processes and scienti?c 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 o?er. One simple reason is that, given the variety of information available and the rate at which it is being extended, it is di?cult to keep up with the range of resources relevant to one’s interests. Another reason is that resources are o?ered in a bewildering variety of formats and styles, so that many resources e?ectively stand in isolation. This is reminiscent of the challenge of enterprise application integration, - miliar to every large organization be it in commerce, academia or government. Thechallengearisesbecauseoftheaccumulationofinformationandcommuni- tion systems over decades, typically without the technical provision or political will to make them work together. Thus the exchange of data among those s- tems is di?cult and expensive, and the potential synergetic e?ects of combining them are never realized.
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Book Title: Federation over the Web
Book Subtitle: International Workshop, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, May 1-6, 2005, Revised Selected Papers
Editors: Klaus P. Jantke, Aran Lunzer, Nicolas Spyratos, Yuzuru Tanaka
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/11605126
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-31018-1Published: 19 January 2006
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-32587-1Published: 23 December 2005
Series ISSN: 0302-9743
Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 216
Topics: Popular Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Database Management, Information Storage and Retrieval, Pattern Recognition