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:
(remote) procedure based
data based
Ivan Herman, W3C Head of Offices
Egmond aan Zee, 12 November, 2002
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