Increased automation on the Web

• Computers co-operate through the Web
  • goal is to achieve a better user experience
• Typical applications:
  • search engines, on-line catalogues, news services, ...
  • user profiling, e-commerce, shared computing resources, ...
  • computational services (stock values, translations, weather data, ...)
• Two major approaches emerge:
  1. (remote) procedure based
  2. data based