Increased Automation on the Web

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